“And having an high priest over the house of God;”
And since we have a great priest over the house of God — the exhortation rests on the singular fact: Christ as great high priest (archierea megan) stands over God's household. The house of God (oikos tou theou) encompasses the church as the new temple.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 10:21
“ Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us.” Having shown the difference of the High Priest, and of the sacrifices, and of the tabernacle, and of the Covenant, and of the promise, and that the difference is great, since those are temporal, but these eternal, those “near to vanishing away,” these permanent, those powerless, these perfect, those figures, these reality, for (he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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