Fathers

Hebrews 3

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Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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Hebrews 3:6

Eastern Fathers

John Chrysostom

"But Christ as a Son over His own house." Perceivest thou how he separates the thing made and the maker, the servant and the son? Moreover He indeed enters into His Father's property as a master, but the other as a servant. "Whose" (i.e. God's) "house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end." Here again he encourages them to press forward nobly, and not to fall: for we shall be the "house" of God (he says), as Moses was, "if we hold fast our confidence and our rejoicing firm unto the …

Homily on Hebrews 5 ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

But Christ is faithful as a true Son and heir, fulfilling the works of the Father according to His will. Truly, the difference between such a Master and a servant is beyond comparison. The house of Moses was the people, of which he himself was also a part. And Christ has a house, that is, us, but only if we stand firm to the end and do not fall. Here he urges them to be steadfast in afflictions and not to lose heart: then we too, like Moses, will be the house of God. …

Commentary on Hebrews ↗

Oecumenius

— "But Christ as a Son." For even if he is called faithful, Paul says, it is as a genuine Son that he is faithful, fulfilling the will of the Father, rather the common will of the holy Trinity. "whose house we are."Here we are the house of Christ, the faithful, according to what is written: "I will dwell in them." (Lev. 27:12; 2 Cor. …

The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews ↗

Western Saints

Thomas Aquinas

168. – Then (v. 6), But Christ was faithful over God's house as a son, he shows what belongs to Christ, namely, that Christ is not as a servant but as a Son in His Father's house and, consequently, in His own, because He is the natural heir: 'Whom he has appointed heir of all things, by Whom also he made the world' (Heb. 1:2). For the Church is Christ's house: 'A wise woman builds her house' (Pr. 14:1); 'The Lord has said to me: You are my son, this day have I begotten you' (Ps. 2:7); 'My beloved son in whom I am well pleased' (Mt. …

Commentary on Hebrews ↗