“Then again he argues from the general custom. Seest thou how he brings up arguments from all quarters, from facts in the Scripture, from its words, from our own notions, from examples in ordinary life? "But if ye be without chastisement" and so on. Seest thou that he said what I just mentioned, that it is not possible…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on Hebrews 29
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8But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
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6For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
— Hebrews 12:8 —
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?
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.