<p>10:29- see on Mk. 15:15; Heb. 12:17.</p><p><em>Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, shall be considered those who have trodden underfoot the Son of God and have counted the blood of the covenant (with which they were sanctified) an unholy thing, and have insulted the Spirit of grace?</em>- Treading underfoot God's son and blaspheming His blood was the kind of thing Paul had tried to make the Hebrew Christians do under pain of torture. These blasphemous statements were required of those who had left Judaism for Christianity and now sought to return to the temple system and the legal protection of Judaism within the Roman empire.To turn away from such great salvation and blaspheme it could not be treated with neutrality by God. There was going to be a terrible consequence for it.The Lord's work had not only attained forgiveness, but had shed forth the gift (&quot;grace&quot;) of the Spirit to transform human hearts so that they did not continue in sin. To turn away from the Lord Jesus was to insult and obstruct that Spirit.</p><p>As &quot;the cross&quot; means more than the impalement which epitomized it, likewise &quot;the blood of Christ&quot; means far more than the red liquid. These concepts found their physical epitome in the crucifixion process, but there is so much more to these things than the physical. The blood of the covenant, the Son of God and the Spirit of grace are bracketed together in Heb. 10:29. The Lord <em>was </em>His blood. The pouring out of blood from His side, the trickles down His cheeks from the crown of thorns, quickly drying in the hot dust beneath... this was <em>Him</em>. We take the wine in memory of <em>Him</em>; not just His blood. And He <em>is</em> the Spirit of God's transforming gift or grace, which aims to change us into how the Lord Jesus actually is. By Himself He purged our sins (Heb. 1:3); and yet this purging was through His blood (Heb. 9:14). He was His blood; His cross was the essence of all He was.</p>