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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Paul wishing to show the great kindness of God towards man, and the Love which He had for the human race, after saying: "Forasmuch then as the children were partakers of blood and flesh, He also Himself likewise took part of the same" - follows up the subject in this passage. For do not regard lightly what is spoken, nor think this merely a slight matter, His taking on Him our flesh. He granted not this to Angels; "For verily He taketh not hold of Angels, but of the seed of Abraham." What is it that he saith? …
Theophylact of Ohrid
"For He does not take hold of angels" — that is, the Lord did not unite Himself with the angelic nature, nor did He assume it. This shows the great love of God for the human race. What He did not grant to the angels, he says, He gave to men — to assume flesh from them. …
Oecumenius
"but he took hold of the seed of Abraham." The term "he took hold" [ἐπιλαμβάνεται] indicates that we, as humans, flee from him, but Christ pursues, and by pursuing, he reached and took hold. He did not take hold of the nature of angels nor did he assume it, but of human nature. Then, wishing to signify that Christ came according to the flesh from Judah, he says, "the seed of Abraham."
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
147. – Then (v. 16) the Apostle proves the benefits which Christ's death obtained. In regard to this he does three things: first, he shows that by His death Christ freed us by reason of the condition of the nature he assumed; secondly, he concludes a likeness (v. 17); thirdly, he shows the benefit of the likeness (v 17b). 148. – He says, therefore: So I have stated that Christ by His death freed us from sin and death. …
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