Hebrews 12:2 (WEB)
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Catechism · 2
“Yet "God had foreseen something better for us": the grace of believing in his Son Jesus, "the pioneer and perfecter of our faith".” — Catechism footnote: Heb 11:40; 12:2
“…and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith."” — Catechism footnote: Heb 12:1-2. Article 2
Fathers and councils · 9
Gregory of Nyssa
“Is He not good, Who for thy sake took on Him the form of a servant, and for the joy set before Him did not shrink from bearing the sufferings due to thy sin, and gave Himself a ransom for thy death, and became for our sakes a curse and sin?” — editor's note: Heb. xii. 2.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And again, Looking unto Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith; Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the Cross, despising shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God.” — editor's note: Ib. xii. 2. On Cyril’s omission of Mark xvi. 19. see Westcott and Hort.
Read the whole comment“In His first coming, He endured the Cross, despising shame; in His second, He comes attended by a host of Angels, receiving glory.” — editor's note: Heb. xii. 2.
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John Chrysostom
“In the next place as the sum and substance of his exhortation, which he puts both first and last, even Christ. ( Ver.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Let us too consider these things in our temptations, when we suffer anything from wicked men, “looking to the Beginner and Finisher of our faith” ( Heb. xii. 2 ), and considering that it is by wicked men, and that it is for virtue’s sake, and for His sake.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And now he saith, “let us go forth unto Him bearing His reproach;”and now, “who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame.”” — editor's note: Heb. xii. 2.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“For certain men have contrived manifest calumnies against me, and have grievously disturbed the churches for whose sake the Lord Christ “endured the Cross despising the shame”; in whose behalf the band of the divine apostles and companies of victorious martyrs were delivered to many kinds of death.” — editor's note: Heb. xii. 2
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“This is the wish of our schoolmaster the law, of the prophets who intervened between Christ and the law, of Christ who is the fulfiller and end of the spiritual law; of the emptied Godhead, of the assumed flesh, of the novel union between God and man, one consisting of two, and both in one.” — editor's note: Heb. xii. 2.
Read the whole comment“For Christ also likewise, when it was possible for him to abide in His own honour and deity, not only so far emptied Himself as to take the form of a slave, but also endured the cross, despising the shame, that he might by His own sufferings destroy sin, and by death slay death.” — editor's note: Heb. xii. 2.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Orations Oration 12.
Cited together in Orations Oration 12.
Cited together in Orations Oration 12.
Cited together in Orations Oration 12.
Cited together in Against Eunomius XI.1.
Cited together in Orations Oration 12.
Cited together in Orations Oration 12.
Cited together in Catechism §165.
Cited together in Against Eunomius XI.1.
Cited together in Catechism §147.
Cited together in Catechism §147.
Cited together in Catechism §147.