John Chrysostom : In the next place, having praised them, he says, "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward." What meanest thou? He did not say, "ye have cast it away, and recover it": but, which tended more to strengthen them, "ye have it," he says. For to recover again that which has been cast away, requires more labor: but not to lose that which is held fast does not. But to the Galatians he says the very opposite: "My children of whom I travail in birth again, till Christ be formed in you"; and with reason; for they were more supine, whence they needed a sharper word; but these were more faint-hearted, so that they rather needed what was more soothing. "Cast not away therefore" (he says) "your confidence," so that they were in great confidence towards God. "Which hath" (he says) "great recompense of reward." "And when shall we receive them (some one might say)? Behold! All things on our part have been done." Therefore he anticipated them on their own supposition, saying in effect, If ye know that ye have in heaven a better substance, seek nothing here. — Homily on Hebrews 21 Oecumenius : They still show them holding onto the same things. "your confidence." For they have boldness before God, those who endure such things for Him. — The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews Oecumenius : "Therefore, do not cast away your confidence," which comes from your works, from faith, from trials, from patience; for these are the things that give us great confidence, that we will receive the promise, freely given. — The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews Oecumenius : "which has great reward." And from where is this evident? You, he says, are witnesses, you who know that you have a better existence in heaven and one that endures. — The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews Photios I of Constantinople : "Do not throw away your confidence," your boldness based on your works, based on your faith, based on your periods of testing, based on your endurance. For these things bestow great confidence on us, that we will obtain the promise. — FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE Hebrews 10.35