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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Who in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears, to Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared." Seest thou that he sets forth nothing else than His care and the exceeding greatness of His love? For what means the expression "with strong crying"? The Gospel nowhere says this, nor that He wept when He prayed, nor yet that He uttered a cry. Seest thou that it was a condescension? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
"By the days of His flesh" he designates the time of His life in the flesh; this does not mean that He has now laid aside the flesh; by no means: for He has it, but flesh that is incorruptible and standing above its fleshly and blameless passions — hunger, thirst, weariness, and the like. The apostle borrowed this passage from David, who in the one hundred and fourteenth psalm says: "I will call upon Him as long as I live" (Ps. 114:2). The apostle applies this entire psalm to Christ. …
Oecumenius
"prayers and supplications." Not only prayers and supplications, but also he offered them with cries and tears. However, Paul said that he was lowering himself to save them. "and he was heard." So much was he heard that he even rose again: this he said because of the weakness of the listeners, who had not yet conceived a glorious opinion of Christ. "because of his reverent submission." He said that he was heard not only out of the grace of the Father but also because of his own reverence. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
253. – Then (v. 7) he shows that what pertains to the priestly office belongs to Christ: first, he shows his condition; secondly, His act (v. 7b); thirdly, His efficacy (v. 7c). 254. – His condition was that He was taken from men, because, as has been stated, a high priest is taken from among men. Therefore, he says, who in the days of his flesh. Here flesh is taken for the entire human nature: 'The Word was made flesh' (Jn. 1:14). But are the days of His flesh no longer here? …
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