ACC ~ Hebrews 2 v10

HE ALWAYS HAD THAT GLORY BY NATURE. CHRYSOSTOM: By saying “to make perfect through suffering,” he shows that the one who suffers for someone not only helps him but becomes himself more glorious and more perfect. … But when I say he was glorified, do not suppose there was an addition of glory to him; for he always had that glory by nature and received nothing in addition. ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 4.4.

PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS. THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA: And the pioneer of all men’s salvation, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the man assumed by him, is declared perfect through sufferings in such a way that both his own nature and God’s grace are made evident. COMMENTARY ON HEBREWS 2.9-10.

GREATER THAN CREATING THE WORLD. CHRYSOSTOM: Sufferings are a perfecting and a cause of salvation. Do you see that to suffer affliction is not the fate of those who are utterly forsaken, if indeed it was by leading him through sufferings that God first honored his Son? And truly, his taking flesh to suffer what he suffered is a far greater thing than creating the world out of things that are not. This is indeed a token of his lovingkindness, but the other far more. ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 4.4.

WE WERE MADE FOR HIM. ATHANASIUS: If all things made by the will of God were made by God, how can God be one of the things that were made? And since the apostle says, “for whom and by whom all things exist,” how can these men say we were not made for him, but he for us? LETTER TO THE BISHOPS OF EGYPT 2.15.

TOGETHER WITH THE SON, YET SEPARATE. CHRYSOSTOM: God has done what is worthy of God’s love toward humankind in showing the firstborn to be more glorious than all and in setting him forth as an example to the others, like some noble wrestler who surpasses the rest.

Paul says, “The pioneer of their salvation,” that is, the cause of their salvation. Do you see what a vast difference there is between the two? He is a Son, and we are sons and daughters; but he saves, and we are saved. Do you see how Paul both brings us together and then separates us? By saying, “bringing many sons to glory,” he brings us together; by saying, “the pioneer of their salvation,” he separates us. ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 4.4.

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