Both are contained in the one word Mediator. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end; Not otherwise. New International Version (NIV) 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. A Comparison Between Jesus and Moses, The One The Son Over The House, The Other The Servant In The House (Hebrews 3:1-6), ‘For this reason, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, even Jesus.’. It might have been otherwise. ; especially John 17:18; John 20:21). As Peake remarks: “If this means profession of faith, then ‘the readers already confess Jesus as high priest, and this is not a truth taught them in this Epistle for the first time’.” [Carpzov quotes from Philo (De Somn. Hebrews 4:14; Hebrews 10:23). John 6:29; John 6:40; John 17:18. Consider then ’ “the Apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus,” the single article brackets the two designations and Bengel gives their sense: “ . "Of our profession" marks that it is not of the legal ritual, but of our Christian faith, that He is the High Priest. You have been long called out of Egypt and brought into the separate place in this wilderness world: be careful to be fit for the Divine indwelling. ‘And High Priest.’ As God’s sent One He has become the High Priest of His people, as the writer has already stated in Hebrews 2:17, and will expand on later on (7-10). Hebrews 3:1. It is as though he were saying that there would be no new Apostles to look to, for those who knew Jesus in the flesh were dying out, but that they still have Jesus, Who is always there, Who is greater than them all, alive from the dead and living in their hearts. 2 The superior *apostle 3:1-4:13 Jesus is superior to Moses 3:1-6 If they are His He has made them ‘holy’, set apart for God by the power of His working. The object of Paul is to show that the Lord Jesus in the Christian system - as the great apostle sent from God - sustained a rank and office similar to this, but superior in dignity and authority. Those that fly to this doctrine and that, unsettled spirits, wandering stars, mere meteors of the night, these are not Christ’s, but we must hold the beginning of our faith steadfast unto the end. He has come directly from God. The true reading is Jesus simply, with special reference to His human nature and His connection with ourselves (see Hebrews 6:20, Hebrews 7:22, Hebrews 11:4; Exodus 3:10-15). The Jews were called to a promised land here on earth; Christians are called by God to Eternity! Partakers of, partners in a ‘calling’ that comes from heaven and leads to it, besides giving the tastes and spirit appropriate to our destiny (John 3:31; Matthew 3:2; Philippians 3:20), servants, therefore, and workers under a new and divine economy. The....high priest of our profession. Commentary on Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16. ÏονομίαÏ, καÏανοήÏαÏε ÏÎ¿á½ºÏ ÎºÏÏακαÏ, á¼ÏοÏÏÎµÎ¯Î»Ï Ïε ÏÏá½¸Ï ÏαÏαÏ, ὠμὲν δὴ μÎÎ³Î±Ï á¼ÏÏιεÏÎµá½ºÏ Ïá¿Ï á½Î¼Î¿Î»Î¿Î³Î¯Î±Ï, Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Hebrews 1:1-2; John 1:14; John 3:17; John 3:34; John 5:36; John 5:38; et al.). By thus calling upon them to consider Christ Jesus in these characters, the apostle seems to intimate that the believing Hebrews had not sufficiently adverted to the nature and quality of the person and offices of Christ, and for that reason were kept in the entanglements of Judaism; therefore he exhorts them to fix their minds attentively on the sublime subject. The things of the world are material, unreal, transient: those of heaven are ideal, true, eternal. 3 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. The promise is left to somebody, it does not say to us -- “a promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.” Not come short of it but even seem to do so. The apostle, in the first chapter of this epistle, having affirmed that Jesus of Nazareth, by whom the gospel revelation was given to mankind, is God’s Son, in a peculiar sense; a sense in which no man or angel is his son; and having proved, from the Jewish Scriptures, that God had constituted this his Son the Heir or Lord of all things, because by him he made the worlds; and in the second chapter, having answered the objections which were, or might be, brought for invalidating the claim of Jesus to be God’s Son, and having thereby given full effect to the direct proofs which established his claim; he, in this third chapter, proceeds to show what is implied in Christ’s being the Heir or Lord of all things; which is the third fact on which the authority of the gospel revelation depends. Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess (Hebrews 3:1) “Therefore” informs us that our author is linking our text with what has been said earlier. 8:30 says that they were foreordained before this calling. The considerations alluded to are His superiority not only to the prophets but also to the angels, inasmuch as He was "over all, God blessed for ever." which sets us apart from non-Christian Jews.”, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, William Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament, Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament, William Newell's Commentary on Romans, Hebrews and Revelation, Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament, Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary, Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture, Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible, Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament, Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, E.M. Zerr's Commentary on Selected Books of the New Testament, Haldane's Exposition on the Epistle to the Romans and Hebrews. It is because of His High Priestly work that they can be His house and enter into rest. If you belong to him be holy, do not grieve him. In particular, the contents of the second chapter are gathered up in this verse, almost every word of which recalls some previous statement or result. qui causam nostram apud Deum agit”. Hebrews 3:1, etc. eum qui Dei causam apud nos agit. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (6) But Christ as a son over his own house. It is certainly partly in order to confirm that He is the complete Deliverer but it surely also has in mind that before Sinai Moses was both Trek Leader and ‘High Priest’ of Israel. Hebrews 3:1-4:13. If then we seek rightly to know him, we must inquire what sort of being he is; yea, he must be clothed with his own power, lest we lay hold on an empty shadow and not on him. So that, while all boasting is excluded, Christ's doctrine is manifestly according to godliness. 1. While Moses was in an eminent degree the Apostle of God to Israel, Aaron was the High Priest; but both these high offices were united in Christ, and the Hebrews are here exhorted to consider the Lord Jesus as uniting the offices both of an Apostle and a Priest. The writer thus confidently hopes that he is speaking to those who are true believers. , as the etymology shows, means “of one speech with,” hence that in which men agree as their common creed, their confession, see ref. He addresses them as holy brethren; he had represented them as sanctified, chap; as separated from the rest of mankind by their union with Christ, who took part in flesh and blood with the children whom God had given Him. For that was why He was sent, to make the way of forgiveness and reconciliation available to those whom God has chosen. He was not the Savior of angels, but of sinners, of mankind, with whom He united Himself in the closest bonds, becoming a member of the human family, taking part with them in flesh and blood, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that Isaiah, the devil, and thus free His brethren from the tyranny of the king of terrors. “Our belief in Christ (compare Matthew 16:16), which sets us apart from non-Christian Jews.”, 1.Wherefore, holy brethren, etc. Now Christ is above the angels (Hebrews 1:1-14; Hebrews 2:1-18), because: (2) as Son of man, because manhood, though for a time lower than angels, is in Him exalted above them to the lordship of "the world to come," since He is at once Messenger of God to men, and atoning Priest-Representative of men before God (Hebrews 2:17-18). Genre; Hortatory. Let your minds penetrate deeply into the significance of these facts.” Whom God sent.Apostle means: one who is sent on an important mission. As Moses especially was the prophet by whom 'God in time past spake to the Fathers' (Hebrews 1:1), being mediator of the law, Paul shows that, great as was Moses, the Son of God is greater. (2) Because the bringing of Israel into the promised rest, not finished by Moses, is accomplished by Him (Hebrews 4:1-11) through His being not merely leader and lawgiver as Moses, but also propitiatory High Priest (Hebrews 4:14; Hebrews 5:10). Again I say they who do not hold on and hold out are not really partakers of Christ, but we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. Our St. Paul will now so unfold both as to confirm their view of the grandeur of the, for the word embraces all the truths and beings we. He did not come to predict God's plan, He came to fulfill it. Submitted by admin on Thu, 2010-05-20 17:45. “In the word ‘heavenly’ there is struck for the first time, in words at least, an antithesis of great importance in the Epistle, that of this world and heaven, in other words, that of the merely material and transient, and the ideal and abiding. ', The Apostle and High Priest of our profession. Angels, for example, were created into the angelic state and mode of being. My Christian brothers. As an Apostle, or God’s messenger, he pleads the cause of God with us; and as High-Priest, he pleads our cause with God. He draws a Comparison between Christ and Moses. c. Partakers of the heavenly calling: Because Jesus is committed to bringing many sons to glory (Hebrews 2:10), we are partners in His heavenly calling. “Holy brethren,” made brethren in holiness and made holy in our brotherhood, -- “partakers of the heavenly calling” — called of God from among the worlds. Greek. 4:1. We note here that Jesus combines the two positions of authority and priesthood, something that Moses could not cope with. Hebrews 3:4-6. Hebrews 3:1. by Grant | Nov 1, 2018 | Hebrews | 0 comments. Men may be nominally Christ’s, but they are not Christ’s house unless they hold fast to the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. Here the charge is not to the outside world but to those whom he had called “holy brethren.” He drops the word “holy” for there are some brethren so called who would not deserve that name, and to them he speaks very pointedly, “Take heed, take heed, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief.” And how will that be shown? Romans 9:5. God calls us through the message of the Good News (John 6:44-45). Two offices belong to him that appointed him, as belonging to the heavenly calling is used as! Butthey did not become brethren by their holiness ; they were foreordained this. 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