“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever — the christological affirmation anchors all Christian practice: Christ's identity and work remain constant. Yesterday (echthes, past), today (semeron, present), forever (eis tous aionas, eternally), Christ is unchanging. This constancy transcends the varying circumstances of believers.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 13:8
In these words, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and for ever,” “yesterday” means all the time that is past: “today,” the present: “for ever,” the endless which is to come. That is to say: You have heard of an High Priest, but not an High Priest who fails. He is always the same. As though there were some who said, 'He is not, another will come,' he says this, that He who was “yesterday and today,” is “the same also forever.” For even now the Jews say, that another…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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