Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 145.
“Thus ‘the gnostic Christ was not a saviour; he was a revealer. He came for the express purpose of communicating his secret gnosis.’8 This undermined the Christian view of sin and the atonement.” (Page 200)
“What does ‘willful sin’ refer to? Contextually it seems to refer to ‘holding fast the confession’ and ‘not forsaking the assembling’ (10:23, 25).” (Page 413)
“the aorist tense indicates that they must not condone even a single act of sin.” (Page 337)
“In keeping with the following clauses, it seems best to understand that ‘beginning’ here points to the unique events, described in Luke 1–2 that characterized the actual Incarnation, which John is proclaiming.” (Page 202)
“Under the Mosaic Covenant the penalty for deliberate sin was loss of physical life. Soteriology is not the issue in Numbers 15; the issue is temporal discipline for violating the Mosaic Covenant.” (Page 413)