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What the Fathers say
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 …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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