The issue is in the "I".
The issue is in the "I".
Since that is what you think, let us deal with that.
As was said We can't fall away from something if we are not there. On the other hand we can't stay put without Christ.
We can't be renewed again if we have not been renewed in the first place. On the other hand, we can't b3 renewed without Christ.
God has said, Eternal salvation is only for those of us whom obey, attentively hearken unto Him as verse 5:9 puts forth. On the other hand we can't obey Him without Him. For He succors, helps us when we are tempted. Living to intercede over us that come to God through Him saving us to the uttermost. Finding mercy and grace in our time of need. For our Lord is our Helper.
Heb 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
Heb 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession over them.
Heb 2:18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
Heb 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Heb 13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
As was said, the issue is in the "I".
However to answer your inquiry the saved,. But context shows us that those to whom he is speaking to can stop obeying, attentively listening to our Lord, our help when they are tempted. Because he goes on to say in chapter 6 which is started in the 1st person plural if they should fall away. One can't fall away unless one is a place to fall from. One can't be renewed AGAIN unto repentance which is of the Lord unless they been renewed in the first place.
And as was stated chapter 6 continues in verses 12-15 Through faith and patience we inherit the promises as Abraham patiently endured and obtained the promise. This is being stated in respect to the admonishing to which the chapter begins which stems from verse 5:9.
If one had formal study in the Greek one would not make such a Grevious error in proclaiming what Gill proclaimed. One would also know that his mastery in the Greek wasn't saying much do to the resources at the time that he was alive. We should stay in our lane and not post what we know not or do not have the recourses or ability to understand or research if true or not.
Your "theologian" Gill is all alone in this that you proclaim. One can not discern Spiritual matters through the lense of preconceived notions and ideals. The conditional particle ἐάν is emphasized even more so by being compounded with enclitic particle περ.
In other words the indicative fact that we are His house or remain so is subject to the condition that follows the conditional particle that is emphasized being compounded with an enclitic particle. And this is even further being emphasized by the fact that the condition of the fact that we are His House or remain so is subject to the holding fast firm unto the end which is being stated in the subjunctive mood. The mood of possibilities. In other words. If it were not Possible for us the House not to hold fast then it would not state such subjunctively.
Χριστὸς δὲ But Christ ὡς As υἱὸς Son ἐπὶ Over τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ· His House, οὗ Whose οἶκός House ἐσμεν Are ἡμεῖς We, ἐάνπερ If Indeed
From the BDAG:
γ. ἐάνπερ if indeed, if only, supposing that ‘referring to still another condition (fact)’ (B-D-F §454, 2) w. pres. subj. (Pla., Ap. 12, 25b; X., Cyr. 4, 6, 8; PFay 124, 9)
6:3; IRo 1:1 and aor. (Plut., Lyc. 40 [3, 2]; BGU 1141, 30) 1:2; IPol 7:1; 3:6, 14 (v.l. ἐάν).From Robinson's word Pictures:
Whose house are we (ου οικος εσμεν ημεις). We Christians (Jew and Gentile) looked at as a whole, not as a local organization.
If we hold fast (εαν κατασχωμεν). Condition of third class with εαν and second aorist (effective) active subjunctive of κατεχω. This note of contingency and doubt runs all through the Epistle. We are God's house if we do not play the traitor and desert.
It plainly states that we should not follow after the sample of unbelief, that of disobedience, "them that sinned, whose carcasses fell in the desert" that Israel did prior to entering into the promise land. And we are Christ's house. only if we hold fast our confidence firm unto the end is being stated in the first person plural. In other words the writer includes himself. As in chapter 2 where the writer begins with an admonition including himself in respect giving earnest heed to that which they heard from the Son and them that heard Him lest they let them slip. For if that which was heard from angels was steadfast that every transgression and disobedience received a just reward how shall we escape that which was first spoken by the Lord and them that heard Him.
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