“If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?”
Endure trials as discipline; God is treating you as children; for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline? — the rhetorical question affirms the universal pattern: discipline (paideia) characterizes parental love. Endurance (hypomeno) of trials proves divine adoption.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 12:7
“You endure chastisement” (he says); not for punishment, nor for vengeance, nor for suffering. See, from that from which they supposed they had been deserted [of God], from these he says they may be confident, that they have not been deserted. It is as if he had said, Because you have suffered so many evils, do you suppose that God has left you and hates you? If you did not suffer, then it were right to suppose this. For if “He scourges every son whom He receives,” he who is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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