“However the difference arises not from this alone, nor from the persons, but also from the cause itself, and from the fact. For it is not on the same grounds that He and they inflict chastisement: but they did it with a view to "what seemed good to them," that is, fulfilling their own pleasure oftentimes, and not alwa…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on Hebrews 29
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10For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
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8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
— Hebrews 12:10 —
11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;