Afresh
Afresh
a-fresh: Only in Heb 6:6, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, where it stands for the prefix of the Greek anastaurountas. It has been disputed whether in this word ana has the reiterative force (again, anew). In classical Greek anastauroo has always the simple sense of to crucify, (i.e. to raise up on a cross, ana being merely up). So some would render it here (e.g. Cremer, Lexicon of New Testament Greek). Against this it is argued (1) that the classical writers had no occasion for the idea of crucifying anew (compare Winer, De verb. Comp., etc., Pt III, 9ff, Leipzig, 1843); (2) that in many compounds ana signifies both up and again, as in anablepo, which means to recover sight as well as to look up; (3) that the rendering crucify afresh suits the context; (4) that the Greek expositors (e.g. Chrysostom) take it so without questioning. (So also Bleek, Lnemann, Alford, Westcott; compare the Vulgate’s rursum crucifigentes.)
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Afresh
* For AFRESH see CROSS, CRUCIFY, B