“Grace be with you all. Amen. Written to the Hebrews from Italy by Timothy.”
Grace be with all of you — the simple benediction (charis) wishes grace upon the entire community. Grace, the unmerited gift of God, is the final word, the foundation upon which the entire epistle rests.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 13:25
Seest thou how he shows that virtue is born neither wholly from God, nor yet from ourselves alone? First by saying, “make you perfect in every good work”; You have virtue indeed, he means, but need to be made complete. What is “good work and word”? So as to have both life and doctrines right. “According to His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight.” “In His sight,” he says. For this is the highest virtue, to do that which is well-pleasing in the sight…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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