“For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;”
We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the end — the condition for participating in Christ is the steadfast retention of the confidence with which the readers first embraced the gospel. Perseverance is not added from outside but flows from the conviction already established.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 3:14
Then he adds Hebrews 3:14, “For we have been made partakers of Christ.” What is this, “We have been made partakers of Christ”? We partake of Him (he means); we were made One, we and He — since He is the Head and we the body, “fellow-heirs and of the same body; we are one body, of His flesh and of His bones.” Ephesians 3:6; Romans 12:5; Ephesians 5:30 “If we hold fast the beginning of our confidence [or, the principle of our subsistence ] steadfast unto the end.” What is “the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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