![]() ![]() What then? Is it thus you show the superiority? For here you have but pointed out that both the New and the Old are of One and the same: and that this superiority is not great. What do you mean? did God speak through the Son? Yes. For he said not, Christ spoke (albeit it was He who did speak), but inasmuch as their souls were weak, and they were not yet able to hear the things concerning Christ, he says, God has spoken by Him. ![]() Do you see that the in is through?Īnd the expression, In times past, and this, In the end of the days, shadows forth some other meaning:- that when a long time had intervened, when we were on the edge of punishment, when the Gifts had failed, when there was no expectation of deliverance, when we were expecting to have less than all- then we have had more.Īnd see how considerately he has spoken it. Behold again he uses the saying, in Son, for through the Son, against those who assert that this phrase is proper to the Spirit. Hath in the end of the days spoken unto us in Son. What then is it which he says? That whoever is spent in the conflict, when he hears of the end thereof, recovers his breath a little, knowing that it is the end indeed of his labors, but the beginning of his rest. For as he says also in another place, The Lord is at hand, be careful for nothing Philippians 4:5-6, and again, For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed Romans 13:11: so also here. Well also said he, at the end of the days, for by this he both stirs them up and encourages them desponding of the future. Then to them by Angels, and this again he establishes, with good reason (for angels also held converse with the Jews): yet even herein we have the superiority, inasmuch as the Master to us, but to them servants, and prophets, fellow-servants.Ģ. Then having established this as acknowledged, he declares that to them indeed He spoke by the prophets, but to us by the Only-begotten. First he shows the superiority from the prophets. He does not indeed at once assert this, but by what he says afterwards he establishes it, when he speaks concerning His human nature For to which of the Angels said He, You are My Son, Hebrews 1:5, and, Sit on My right hand? Hebrews 1:13Īnd look on his great wisdom. Hosea 12:10 Wherefore the excellency consists not in this alone, that to them indeed prophets were sent, but to us the Son but that none of them saw God, but the Only-begotten Son saw Him. For I (says He) have multiplied visions, and used similitudes by the ministry of the Prophets. For the expressions, at sundry times and in various manners are the same as in different ways. As if he had said, What so great matter is it that He sent prophets to our fathers? For to us His own only-begotten Son Himself.Īnd well did he begin thus, At sundry times and in various manners, for he points out that not even the prophets themselves saw God nevertheless, the Son saw Him. And thirdly, because he rather wished to exalt them, and to show that their superiority was great. ![]() Secondly, because his hearers were not yet perfect. Why? First, to avoid speaking great things concerning himself. Why did he not oppose himself to the prophets? Certainly, he was much greater than they, inasmuch as a greater trust was committed to him. Wherefore he says, God who at sundry times and in various manners spoke in times past unto the fathers by the Prophets, has at the end of the days spoken unto us by His Son. For since as it was likely that afflicted, worn out by evils, and judging of things thereby, they would think themselves worse off than all other men,- he shows that herein they had rather been made partakers of greater, even very exceeding, grace arousing the hearer at the very opening of his discourse. Romans 5:20 This at least the blessed Paul intimates here also, in the very beginning of his Epistle to the Hebrews. ![]() Truly, where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. God who at sundry times and in various manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the Prophets, has at the end of the days spoken unto us by His Son whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds.ġ. ![]()
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