Methodius of Olympus

In his own words on Hebrews

• Hebrews 1:1

  But since there are of arguments myriads of currents and ways, God inspiring us "at sundry times and in divers manners"

  Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia

• Hebrews 1:3

  Thou art the circumscription, so to speak, of Him who cannot be circumscribed; the root of the most beautiful flower; the mother of the Creator; the nurse of the Nourisher; the circumference of Him who embraces all things; the upholder of Him who upholds all things by His word; the gate through which God appears in the flesh; the tongs of that cleansing coal; the bosom in small of that bosom which is all-containing; the fleece of wool, the mystery of which cannot be solved; the well of Bethlehem, that reservoir of life which David longed for, out of which the draught of immortality gushed forth; the mercy-seat from which God in human form was made known unto men; the spotless robe of Him who clothes Himself with light as with a garment.

  Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna

• Hebrews 2:16

  That Lord, I say, who in His simple and immaterial Deity, entered our nature, and of the virgin's womb became ineffably incarnate; that Lord, who was partaker of nothing else save the lump of Adam, who was by the serpent tripped up. For the Lord laid not hold of the seed of angels

  Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna

• Hebrews 4:14

  For I also, taking my journey, and going forth from the Egypt of this life, came first to the resurrection, which is the true Feast of the Tabernacles, and there having set up my tabernacle, adorned with the fruits of virtue, on the first day of the resurrection, which is the day of judgment, celebrate with Christ the millennium of rest, which is called the seventh day, even the true Sabbath. Then again from thence I, a follower of Jesus, "who hath entered into the heavens"

  Methodius Discourse IX. Tusiane

• Hebrews 9:4

  The pledge and earnest of a perpetual priesthood, furnished no contemptible symbol of thy supernatural child-bearing. On thy account, and the undefiled Incarnation of God, the Word, which by thee had place for the sake of that flesh which immutably and indivisibly remains with Him for ever.

  Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna

• Hebrews 10:1

  If the law, according to the apostle, is spiritual, containing the images "of future good things"

  Methodius Discourse V. Thallousa

• Hebrews 10:32

  ...and that the side is the Spirit of truth, the Paraclete, of whom the illuminated receiving are fitly born again to incorruption. For it is impossible for any one to be a partaker of the Holy Spirit, and to be chosen a member of Christ, unless the Word first came down upon him and fell into a trance, in order that he, being filled with the Spirit, and rising again from sleep with Him who was laid to sleep for his sake, should be able to receive renewal and restoration.

  Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia

• Hebrews 11:10

  And the Jews declared that the shadow of the image (of the heavenly things which was afforded to them), was the third from the reality; but we clearly behold the image of the heavenly order; for the truth will be accurately made manifest after the resurrection, when we shall see the heavenly tabernacle (the city in heaven "whose builder and maker is God"

  Methodius Discourse V. Thallousa

• Hebrews 11:23

  For consider what confidence Seth had towards God, and Abel, and Enos, and Enoch, and Methuselah, and Noah, the first lovers of righteousness, and the first of the first-born children who are written in heaven,

  Methodius Discourse VII. Procilla

• Hebrews 12:15

  For the present we restrain its sprouts, such as evil imaginations, "test any root of bitterness springing up trouble"

  Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection