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Moses and Joshua in the Tabernacle, James Tissot

Hebrews 3:5

James Tissot, Moses and Joshua in the Tabernacle, c. 1896–1902 · Jewish Museum, New York · Public domainJames Tissot, Moses and Joshua in the Tabernacle, c. 1896–1902, Jewish Museum, New York

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Hebrews 3:5 (WEB)

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

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    The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events about which it speaks can be signs.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

  • “And Moses himself, being a man of God, was indeed given as a god before Pharaoh; but he is not properly termed Lord, nor is called God by the prophets, but is spoken of by the Spirit as “Moses, the faithful minister and servant of God,” which also he was.” — editor's note: Heb. iii. 5; Num. xii. 7.

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Athanasius of Alexandria

  • “For instance, he says, ‘Moses as a servant, but Christ as a Son;’ and the former ‘faithful in his house,’ and the latter ‘over the house,’ as having Himself built it, and being its Lord and Framer, and as God sanctifying it.” — editor's note: Heb. iii. 5, 6.

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John Chrysostom

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