“But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.”
If you do not have discipline, of which all children have become participants, then you are illegitimate and not his children — the logic inverts: absence of discipline proves illegitimacy (nothoi). All legitimately adopted children (huioi) experience the Father's paideia.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 12:8
Then again [he argues] from the general custom. Do you see how he brings up arguments from all quarters, from facts in the Scripture, from its words, from our own notions, from examples in ordinary life? Hebrews 12:8 “But if you be without chastisement” [&c.]. Do you see that he said what I just mentioned, that it is not possible to be a son without being chastened? For as in families, fathers care not for bastards, though they learn nothing, though they be not distinguished,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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