“Now we ought to be aware that there are some Lazaruses even now who, after having become friends of Jesus, have become sick and died. As dead persons they have remained in the tomb and the land of the dead with the dead.… Consider the one who has fallen away from Christ and returned to the Gentiles' life after he has…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 28.54-56
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5And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
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3And this will we do, if God permit.
4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
— Hebrews 6:5 —
6If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
7For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: