We must, therefore, with very special intensity pay attention to the
things that we have heard. For, if the word which was spoken through
the medium of the angels proved itself to be certified as valid, and
if every transgression and disobedience of it received its just
recompense, how shall we esca... [ Continue Reading ]
It was not to angels that he subjected the order of things to come of
which we are speaking. Somewhere in scripture someone bears this
witness to that fact: "What is man that you remember him? Or the son
of man that you visit him? For a little time you made him lower than
the angels; you crowned him... [ Continue Reading ]
For, in his work of bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that
he for whom everything exists and through whom everything exists,
should make the pioneer of salvation fully adequate for his destined
work through suffering. For he who sanctifies and they who are
sanctified must come of one stock... [ Continue Reading ]