“Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.”
Therefore do not throw away your confidence (parrēsia), which has a great reward — exhortation not to abandon (apoballo) the boldness (parrēsia) displayed earlier; that confidence carries with it divine recompense (misthapodosia).
Church Fathers on Hebrews 10:35
In the next place, having praised them, he says, Hebrews 10:35 “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.” What do you mean? He did not say, 'you have cast it away, and recover it': but, which tended more to strengthen them, “you have it,” he says. For to recover again that which has been cast away, requires more labor: but not to lose that which is held fast does not. But to the Galatians he says the very opposite: “My children of whom I…
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