“Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;”
Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess — the designation of Jesus as both "apostolos" and "archiereus" introduces the theme that dominates chapters 3-10: Jesus is not merely a messenger but the supreme high priest. The call to fix your thoughts on Jesus emphasizes the interpretive task.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 3:1
Being about to place Him before Moses in comparison, he led his discourse to the law of the high-priesthood; for they all had a high esteem for Moses: moreover, he is already beforehand casting down the seeds of the superiority. Therefore he begins from the flesh, and goes up to the Godhead, where there was no longer any comparison. He began from the flesh [from His Human nature], by assuming for a time the equality, and says, “as also Moses in all His house”: nor does he at…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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