Hebrews 13:8 (WEB)
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Fathers and councils · 15
Athanasius of Alexandria
“Therefore the Image of the unalterable God must be unchangeable; for ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.’” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 8.
Read the whole comment“Therefore ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever,’ remaining unalterable, and at once gives and receives, giving as God’s Word, receiving as man.” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 8.
Read the whole comment“Therefore reasonably the Apostle, discoursing concerning the bodily presence of the Word, says, an ‘Apostle and faithful to Him that made Him,’ shewing us that, even when made man, ‘Jesus Christ’ is ‘the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever’ is unchangeable.” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 8.
Read the whole comment“For the Saviour Himself says, ‘Behold, behold, it is I, and I change not,’ while Paul writes: ‘Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.’” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 8.
Read the whole comment“Fragments of an ‘Epistola ad Antiochenos’ (not our ‘Tomus,’ supr., p. 483): also a polemic against Monophysitism, and almost Nestorian in doctrine: ‘Jesus Christus…non est Ipse’ [i.e. ante sæcula et in sæcula, Heb. xiii. 8], and ‘duas personas’ asserted of Christ.” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
“Christ is to thee To-day; (Heb. 13:8.)” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Let us therefore inquire the time when our Lord came: because His coming is recent, and is disputed: and because Christ Jesus is the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 8. Cyril is supposed to refer to two objections to the Incarnation, one founded on the lateness of Christ’s coming, the other on the Divine…
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Theodoret of Cyrus
““For Jesus Christ” is “the same yesterday, to-day, and forever.”” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 8
Read the whole comment“Wherefore we are endeavouring to distinguish how the same being is Son of God and also Son of man, and how He is “the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever,” and by the reverent distinction of terms we find that the contradictions are in agreement.” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 8
Read the whole comment“…“One Lord, one faith, one baptism” and again “One Lord Jesus Christ by Whom are all things” and again “Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to-day and for ever” and in another place—“He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens.”” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 8
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Ambrose of Milan
“But “Christ,” as it is written, “is the same yesterday and to-day.”” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 8.
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John Chrysostom
“Ver.” — the author cites it
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John Cassian
“As the Apostle himself clearly says elsewhere: “For Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.”” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 8.
Read the whole comment“For, as it is written, “Jesus Christ is yesterday and today and the same for ever.”” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 8.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“He Who is not carnal is Incarnate; the Son of God becomes the Son of Man, Jesus Christ the Same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 8.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius V.6.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 83 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 83.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith V.2.
Cited together in Against the Arians I.9.
