{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6718","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":20,"verse_to":20},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: In the house of Levi, because \"they became priests without an oath,\" they did not last; he, on the contrary, lasts forever. In fact, it cannot happen that he speaks falsely about the oath, because he said, \"The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever' \" of the priests according to the order of Melchizedek. And \"Jesus Christ\" was \"a much better\" mediator than the former priests in that thing, which he promised us through the New Testament.While before it was necessary that the priests were many, because death interrupted the older ones in the course of their office and they did not last forever, now there is no other high priest with our Lord, \"who lives forever to make intercession for us,\" not in the victims of the sacrifices but in prayers.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS</i></p><p><b>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: \"And he is able for all time to save us,\" not in the earthly delights, which nourish us for a few days, but \"when we draw near to God through him\" in eternity.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And forasmuch as not without the taking of an oath.\" Thou seest that the matter of the oath becomes necessary for him here. Accordingly for this reason he previously treated much hereon, how that God swore; and swore for the sake of our fuller assurance.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 13</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"because the matter was not done without an oath.\" And so much, he says, the hope has been greatly improved, insofar as Christ has become a priest without an oath. For the oath indicates the unchangeable nature of his being a high priest forever.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Theodore of Mopsuestia</b>: He says that it shows the difference between Christ and Aaron in that Christ received the priesthood with an oath. For those who became priests without oaths became so because of their need to cease being priests at some time, but Christ entered the priesthood with oaths, since he intended to remain based on his rank. He shows his rank is far greater than those under the law, since he intended also to furnish a greater high priest to those coming to him. For in this way he says he becomes \"a surety\" … for being the first to rise, just as he also calls him a \"high priest,\" so he pledges to us a similar resurrection.<br/><i>— FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE Hebrews 7.20-22</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Since he was the one who under the law appointed priests but brought them to an end and declared another in their place, he was obliged to say that he appointed them without taking an oath, but in his case included an oath as well. Do not think, then, that this priesthood will cease to have effect like that one, or that another one will take its place; the taking of an oath excludes such a false impression.<br/><i>— INTERPRETATION OF Hebrews 7</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"ea3b29e6201fcd4f377fe13ac6ad2ba2e6e4507c5a5249c61b3faa6736c260e5","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6718,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"fcec9c6550d770dd665589b6d1542df63a0b65383786bbc184dd8ed943d5d237","translator":null,"work":null}