Hebrews 3:6

6. But After this conceded tribute to Moses we next have Christ’s superiority. Moses was in, Christ is over, the house. Own expresses an emphasis not in the Greek; the same pronoun for his is used of Moses (Hebrews 3:5) and of Christ here.

Whose Referring to Christ. For having established under this striking image of house Christ’s superiority as proprietor of the dispensations, our apostle makes a beautiful transition from this divine proprietorship to the solemn warning against apostasy from Christ, which now follows. We The writer and his Hebrew Christian brethren. They are now part of the house; they will be permanent part, if. For it is clear that the writer assumes that they are now in possession of a true confidence and rejoicing, which they have only to hold fast. The whole of the remainder of the chapter assumes that they are now true Christians; the exhortation is, to stay just as they are: the great fear is that they will not, but that they will apostatize and finally perish.

Confidence Greek, free, bold utterance; of which the inward foundation is confidence of faith and feeling.

Rejoicing Or, exultation. Confidence is the firm, solid assurance; rejoicing is the joyful hope and glorying built on that solid foundation.

Firm With unmovableness. End of our probationary life. At that end all danger is at an end. We then cannot fall. For though we still be free agents, intrinsically able to choose wrong in the blessed paradise, there is no wrong to choose. Our hearts will be so attuned with the heart of the holy Christ that an unholy emotion cannot enter. Our spirits, filled with the blessed Spirit, can give no entrance to an unholy thought. We are no longer “prisoners of hope,” but prisoners of everlasting joy. We are immovable parts of Christ’s eternal house. The clause unto the end, has been rejected, as being really inserted here from Hebrews 3:14. Delitzsch thinks our apostle would not use the phrase twice. Unreasonably, for it is truly an emphatic repetition, a repetition of what is really the point of the whole epistle. It is retained by the best authorities; by Tischendorf in the fourth edition of his Testament.