“Paul, having treated of hope, and having said that "We are His house, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end"; next shows that we ought to look forward with firmness, and he proves this from the Scriptures. His discourse was concerning Hope, and that it behooves us to hope for t…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on Hebrews 6
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8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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6But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
7Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
— Hebrews 3:8 —
9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.