The Eternal Nature and Supremacy of Christ

The Creator.

For there is one God, the Father, from whom all things proceed, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things were made; and again, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever, into the ages. How then can he be the same as he was yesterday, even though he was born in the most recent times of this age? It is because the most ancient nature of the Word of God has remained necessarily unshakeable, even during the era of the incarnation and this most recent dispensation.

Indeed, he at times used words concerning the forefather Abraham to address Israel, saying, "Your father Abraham rejoiced so that he might see my day, and he saw it and was glad" (John 8:56). But those who did not understand the mystery resting upon him—viewing him merely as a man like ourselves and nothing more—incoherently asked, "Do you not yet have fifty years, and you have seen Abraham?" (John 8:57). But he said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am" (John 8:56-58). Therefore, he is the artisan and the creator of both Abraham and Moses and of all things; and it is necessary that the maker pre-announce all his own works, and that the beauty of the archetype be pre-manifested in those created according to his image.

In this way, the measure of Moses is unequally surpassed; rather, the glory of Christ will exceed all that has been called into existence.

Furthermore, by another method, the lawgiver Paul seeks to demonstrate that the word concerning these matters has become both wise and true.

For he says that Moses was faithful in all his house as a servant for the testimony of the things to be spoken, but Christ is as a Son upon his house, which is the house of whom we are.

So look, then, in order that you might assign to the blessed Moses a certain measure of that householder-like genuineness.

For they say that he is to be in the house faithful as a witness of the things to be spoken—that is, for the service of the words from God—but Christ is not so.

For He is not found as a faithful householder in the house, but as Son and Master over the house of the Father; that is to say, over us, the ones having been justified in faith and sanctified in the Spirit.

For Moses indeed was brought up through the shadow of the law, and the qualities of householder-like genuineness were brought to him as a prize, as God was saying to him, 'You shall stand beside him with me' (Hebrews 3:5), and he was greatly esteemed among the better ones in Christ.

For He has sat 'at the right hand of the throne of majesty in the high places' (Hebrews 1:3), and He has dwelt as Son and Lord in the house of His own Father.

For He encamps for us as God through His own Spirit, even though the all-wise Moses inhabited in nothing; for we have not become partakers of Moses, nor even of any other of the saints, but we have partaken of Christ through the Spirit and the blessing of the mystery.

For even though God says through one of the holy prophets, 'I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be a people to me' (Ezekiel 37:27).