“For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.”
For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything — the cosmic statement expands the image beyond the ecclesiastical to the ontological: God is the builder of all that is. The house imagery, applied first to the ecclesia and then to the cosmos, suggests that Christ's superintendence encompasses both creation and church.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 3:4
“For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses,” (Again [he is speaking] of the Flesh), “inasmuch as he who has built [the house] has more honor than the house”; [Moses] himself also (he means) was of the house. (Moreover he did not say, For this one was a servant, but the Other a master, but he covertly intimated it.) If the people were the house and he was of the people, then he certainly was of the household. For so also we are accustomed to say, such an one is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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