“But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:”
But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin — the unforgivable sin is defined in context as the scribes' accusation: attributing the Spirit's work through Jesus to Satan. The sin is not a momentary doubt or a particular moral failure but a settled, persistent attribution of divine work to demonic origin. It is unforgivable not because God's forgiveness has a limit but because this specific sin is the rejection of the very witness that makes repentance and faith possible. If the Spirit's testimony through Jesus is demonized, the path to forgiveness is closed from the human side — not because God refuses to forgive but because the person has rejected the means of forgiveness.
Church Fathers on Mark 3:29
The meaning of the example is this: The devil is the strong man; his goods are the men into whom he is received; unless therefore a man first conquers the devil, how can he deprive him of his goods, that is, of the men whom he has possessed?
The Lord has also bound the strong man, that is, the devil: which means, He has restrained him from seducing the elect, and entering into his house, the world; He has spoiled his house, and his goods, that is men, because He has snatched them from the snares of the devil, and has united them to His Church.
Or this is meant; that he will not deserve to work out repentance, so as to be accepted, who, understanding who Christ was, declared that He was the prince of the devils.
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