Hebreus 5
Theodoret of Cyrus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Hebreus 5:1-3
Even under the law it was not an angel that was appointed to act as priest for human beings but a human being for human beings, with the same nature, affected by the same passions, understanding the weakness of nature, assigning pardon to the recalcitrant, offering a hand to sinners, treating what affects the neighbor as his own. This is the very reason he is appointed to offer sacrifices not for the people alone but also for himself. — INTERPRETATION OF HEBREWS 5
Hebreus 5:4
The one receiving appointment from God is the lawful high priest; this was the way Aaron, the first high priest, received the honor. The divine apostle said this, of course, not intending to inform us now of the norms for high priesthood, but to lay the groundwork for a treatment of the Lord's high priesthood. — INTERPRETATION OF HEBREWS 5
Hebreus 5:7
How would it be possible for God the Word to fear death, since he is the Creator of the ages, unchangeable, immutable, free of passion? Certainly it would be the height of folly to go on at length about the point. For the extreme humiliation that marks the theme of the passage compels even those who blaspheme the divinity to recognize that none of these things are suitable to the divinity. — INTERPRETATION OF HEBREWS 5
Hebreus 5:7
For the divinity allowed the humanity to suffer this so that we might learn that he truly became man and assumed a human nature and that the mystery of the incarnation was not perfected in appearance or seeming. — INTERPRETATION OF HEBREWS 5
Hebreus 5:9
By "being made perfect" he referred to resurrection and immortality, this being the completion of the incarnation. — INTERPRETATION OF HEBREWS 5
Hebreus 5:11-12
To those still lacking perfect faith the heralds of the truth propose only things to do with the humanity. This is the way followed by blessed Peter in addressing Jews. He accommodated his teaching to the limitations of the listeners, saying, "Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God," and so on in keeping with this theme. The divinely inspired Paul in proposing the message to the Athenians called Christ the Lord not God but a man. — INTERPRETATION OF HEBREWS 5