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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"But now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the Mediator of a better covenant." Thou seest (he means) how much better is the one ministration than the other, if one be an example and type, and the other truth. But this did not profit the hearers, nor cheer them. …
Athanasius of Alexandria
"It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these." Both in the verse before us, then, and throughout, does he ascribe the word better to the Lord, who is better and other than originated things. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
This follows from that very thought: "if He remained on earth, He would not even be a priest." But now, he says, not being on earth, but having heaven as the place of His priestly ministry, He obtained a better ministry, that is, His ministry is not such as is proper to earthly high priests, but heavenly, since heaven serves as the place of its performance. Having exalted the priesthood of Christ by place, and by priest, and by sacrifice, he now openly sets it forth also by covenant. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
390. – Having proved that Christ is a high priest and, consequently, a minister of holy things, but not according to the Old Law, the Apostle now shows that He is a minister of greater and better things than they had been. In regard to this he does three things: first, he prefaces his intent; secondly, he assigns its cause (v. 6b); thirdly, he proves (v. 7). 391. …
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