The Unforgivable Sin Part II

From this Analysis of the word, lets see what some people say the Blaspheme against the Holy Spirit is.

Here are the options:
1. Beyer, (who was the writer of the article in the dictionary corresponding to this word in TDNT) Commenting on the incident in Mr. 3:28-29, which corresponds to the one in Mathew 12:31-32 explains the sin by saying: “It denotes the conscious and wicked rejection of the saving power and grace of God towards man. Only the man who sets himself against forgiveness is excluded from it.” Page 624 vol. 1.

2.M.M. Knappen: “Ascribing to Satan the works of God.”
3. John Wesley: Saying that Jesus cast out demons by the power of Satan
4. A blasphemy of the Spirit of God, in the testimony he hath given to Christ and his gospel; and a total apostasy from the light and convicting evidence of the truth of the Christian religion.” Gospel Magazine V. 321 ff. 1778.
5.Reverend Basil Wood: “Charging Christ with having a devil and with working his Miracles by Satan; while they [the Pharisees] knew in their consciences that he wrought them by the finger of God.”
6. Richard Cecil: “Sinning against the dispensation of the Spirit after the day of Pentecost.”
7. John Newton: The final impenitence.
8. Augustine of Hippo:
He could not accept that a there was not a sin that God would not forgive. So his conclusion was: One sinned unpardonable only when one contemptuously refused to seek the Spirit’s forgiveness. Persistent impenitence was the blasphemy against the Spirit, the one unpardonable sin.
9. Thomas Aquinas
It could be an specific sin, and a general condition of sin.
List of sins that are against the Holy Spirit according to Aquinas:
A. Despair
B. Presumption
C. Impenitence
D. Obstinacy
E. Resisting the known truth
F. Envy of another’s Good.
10. John Calving: “The Resistance of truth with settled malice merely for the sake of resisting (even though they are so seized by its brightness that they cannot plead ignorance).”

John Calving got to this conclusion after analyzing Heb. 6:4-6; Heb. 10:26-29.

11. William Perkins: “A voluntary and obstinate denial of the truth of Christ already known, proceeding from destinata malitia (settled malice) as its root or efficient cause.”