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Hebrews 3
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1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus: CCC
2 Who is faithful to him that made him, as was also Moses in all his house. CCC · Fathers
3 For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as he that hath built the house hath greater honour than the house. CCC
4 For every house is built by some man: but he that created all things is God. CCC
5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be said: Fathers
6 But Christ, as the Son in his own house: which house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and glory of hope unto the end. CCC
7 Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To-day if you shall hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the desert,
9 Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,
10 Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways.
11 As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest.
12 Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.
13 But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end.
15 While it is said: To day, if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that provocation.
16 For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?
18 And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that were incredulous?
19 And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief.
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- CCC 117 “The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events…”
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- CCC 117 “The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events…”
“… righteous man, and blameless, truthful, God-fearing, and one that kept himself from all evil." But bringing an accusation against himself, he said, "No man is free from defilement, even if his life be but of one day." Moses was called faithful in all God's house;”
Quoted in First Letter to the Corinthians, St. Clement of Rome (c. AD 96), Chapter XVII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
Read the Catechism
- CCC 117 “The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events…”
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- CCC 117 “The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events…”
Read the Fathers
“And what wonder is it if those in Christ who were entrusted with such a duty by God, appointed those [ministers] before mentioned, when the blessed Moses also, "a faithful servant in all his house,”
Quoted in First Letter to the Corinthians, St. Clement of Rome (c. AD 96), Chapter XLIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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