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In this reward lies contained the proof that He was faithful. This is probably the connection of thought; others join this verse with the first: “Consider Him . . . for He hath received higher glory than Moses.”<p><span class= "bld">Inasmuch as.</span>—That is, <span class= "ital">in proportion as</span>: the glory attained by Jesus exceeds the glory of Moses, as the honour due to the builder of the house exceeds that possessed by the house itself. It is not said that Jesus is the Builder; but the relation in which He stands to the Builder of the house is compared with that of Moses to the house. (See <a href="/context/hebrews/3-5.htm" title="And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;">Hebrews 3:5-6</a>.) “Builded” is not a happy word here (especially if we consider the sense in which “house” is used), but it is not easy to find a suitable rendering. The meaning is, He who prepared or formed the house, with all its necessary parts and arrangements.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/benson/hebrews/3.htm">Benson Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/hebrews/3-3.htm" title="For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house....">Hebrews 3:3-4</a></span>. <span class="ital">For, </span>&c. — The apostle proceeds in this verse, and the three following, with his design of evidencing the excellence of Christ above Moses, as he had done before in reference to angels, and all other revealers of the will of God to the church; the word <span class="ital">for </span>denoting the connection of this paragraph with <a href="/hebrews/3-1.htm" title="Why, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;">Hebrews 3:1</a> : “Consider him,” says he; <span class="ital">for </span>he is <span class="ital">worthy of more glory than Moses. </span>— The church being called the house of God, and that by God himself, the apostle takes advantage of the metaphor to express the dignity of Christ. <span class="ital">He that buildeth the house, </span>&c. — The verb <span class="greekheb">κατασκευαζω</span>, here used, and rendered <span class="ital">to build, </span>signifies to set things in order, <a href="/hebrews/9-6.htm" title="Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.">Hebrews 9:6</a>. It likewise signifies to form a thing as an artificer doth; in which sense it is applied to Noah’s forming the ark, <a href="/hebrews/11-7.htm" title="By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.">Hebrews 11:7</a>. In this passage it signifies the forming a church, or religious society, by bestowing on it privileges, and by giving it laws for the direction of its members. And, as the apostle is speaking of the forming of the Christian Church, his meaning is, that Jesus, who formed the Christian Church, is a more honourable or greater person than all the members of that church collectively; consequently greater than any particular member of it. By making this observation, the apostle intimated that Moses, being a member of the Jewish Church, which he formed as God’s servant, and needing its services and privileges equally with the Israelites, he was not to be compared with Jesus, who by his own authority had erected and supported the church in all ages and places, and had need of none of the privileges or services of the church which he had formed. <span class="ital">For every house is builded by some man — </span>As the discourse is not concerning a material edifice, but concerning the Jewish and Christian Churches, <span class="ital">every house </span>must mean <span class="ital">every church </span>or <span class="ital">religious society; </span>perhaps also every community, state, or government righteously established, is included in this general expression. <span class="ital">But he that built all things </span>— Or <span class="ital">all these things, </span>as Beza renders the expression, namely, the whole church, and all the persons that belong to it, or the parts of it, in all ages; the expression <span class="ital">all things </span>being properly restrained to the subject treated of, and the word used by the apostle to express the building of the house, plainly declaring that it is the same kind of building he is treating of, and not the absolute creation of all things, which is nowhere expressed by that word; <span class="ital">is God </span>— “The words may be so understood as to signify either <span class="ital">that God made or built all these things, </span>or <span class="ital">that he who made and built all these things is God; </span>the first sense making God the <span class="ital">subject, </span>the latter the <span class="ital">predicate </span>of the proposition. But as to our purpose, they amount to the same thing; for if he who made them is God, his making of them declares him to be so. And that it is the Lord Christ who is intended in this expression, will appear immediately; for, 1st, If God absolutely, or God the Father be intended, then by the building of all things, the creation of the world is designed; so they all grant who are of that opinion; but that this is not so, we have already demonstrated from the words themselves. 2d, The introduction of God absolutely, and his building of all things in this place, is no way subservient to the apostle’s purpose; for what light or evidence doth this contribute to his principal assertion, namely, that Christ was more honourable than Moses, and that on account of his building the house of God, the confirmation whereof he doth in these words expressly design? 3d, It is contrary to his purpose. For he doth not prove the Lord Christ to be deservedly preferred before Moses, unless he manifest that by his <span class="ital">own power </span>he built the house of God in such a manner as Moses was not employed in; whereas, according to this interpretation, he assigns the principal building of the house to <span class="ital">another, </span>even the Father, and so overthrows what he had before asserted. This then is that which by these words the apostle intends to declare; namely, the ground and reason whence it is that the house was or could be in that glorious manner built by Christ, even <span class="ital">because he is God, </span>and so able to effect it; and by this effect of his power he is manifested so to be.” — Owen.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/hebrews/3.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>3:1-6 Christ is to be considered as the Apostle of our profession, the Messenger sent by God to men, the great Revealer of that faith which we profess to hold, and of that hope which we profess to have. As Christ, the Messiah, anointed for the office both of Apostle and High Priest. As Jesus, our Saviour, our Healer, the great Physician of souls. Consider him thus. Consider what he is in himself, what he is to us, and what he will be to us hereafter and for ever. Close and serious thoughts of Christ bring us to know more of him. The Jews had a high opinion of the faithfulness of Moses, yet his faithfulness was but a type of Christ's. Christ was the Master of this house, of his church, his people, as well as their Maker. Moses was a faithful servant; Christ, as the eternal Son of God, is rightful Owner and Sovereign Ruler of the Church. There must not only be setting out well in the ways of Christ, but stedfastness and perseverance therein to the end. Every meditation on his person and his salvation, will suggest more wisdom, new motives to love, confidence, and obedience.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/hebrews/3.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>For this man - The Lord Jesus. The word "man" is understood, but there can be no doubt that he is referred to.<p>Was counted more worthy - Was more worthy; or is more worthy. The word used here does not refer to anything that had been said of him, or to any estimate which had been made of him. It means simply that he was worthy of more honor than Moses. how he was so, Paul proceeds to show.<p>Of more glory - - δόξης doxē̄s. Honor, dignity, regard. He really had a higher rank, and was worthy of more respect. This was saying much for the Messiah, and that it was proper to say this, Paul proceeds to show. He did not attempt in any way to undervalue Moses and his institutions. He gave him all the honor which the Jews were themselves disposed to render him. He admitted that he had been eminently faithful in the station where God had placed him; and he then proceeds to show that the Lord Jesus was entitled to honor superior to that, and that hence the Christian religion had more to attach its friends to it than the Jewish had.<p>Inasmuch as he who hath builded the house - The idea here is, either that he who is the maker of a house - the architect - is worthy of more respect than the house itself; or that he who is the founder of a family is worthy of more honor than the family of which he is the founder. It seems to me that the former is the meaning - for the latter is not always true. The founder of a family may be really deserving of much less respect than some of his descendants. But it is always true that the architect is worthy of more respect than the house which he makes. He exhibits intellect and skill. The house, however splendid, has neither. The plan of the house was drawn by him; its beauty, its proportions, its ornaments, are what he made them, and but for him they would not have existed. Michelangelo was worthy of more honor than "St. Peter's Cathedral" at Rome; and Sir Christopher Wren worthy of more than "St. Paul's Cathedral" at London. Galileo is worthy of more praise than the telescope, and Fulton more than a steam-engine. All the evidence of skill and adaptedness that there is in the invention had its origin in the inventor all the beauty of the statue or the temple had its origin in the mind of him that designed it. An author is worthy of more honor than a book; and he that forms a work of art is worthy of more respect than the work itself. This is the idea here. Paul assumes that all things owed their origin to the Son of God; <a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/1-2.htm">Hebrews 1:2</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/1-8.htm">Hebrews 1:8</a>,<a href="/hebrews/1-10.htm">Hebrews 1:10</a>. He was the author of the universe; the source of all wise and well-founded systems; the originator of the Jewish dispensation over which Moses presided. Whatever beauty or excellence there might have been, therefore, in that system, was to be traced to him; and whatever ability even Moses displayed was imparted by him. Christ is really the head of the family over which Moses presided, and has claims, therefore, to higher honor as such. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/hebrews/3.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>3. For—assigning the reason why they should "consider" attentively "Christ" (Heb 3:1), highly as they regard Moses who resembled Him in faithfulness (Heb 3:2).<p>was—Greek, "has been."<p>counted worthy of more glory—by God, when He exalted Him to His own right hand. The Hebrew Christians admitted the fact (Heb 1:13).<p>builded the house—Greek, "inasmuch as He hath more honor than the house, who prepared it," or "established it" [Alford]. The Greek verb is used purposely instead of "builded," in order to mark that the building meant is not a literal, but a spiritual house: the Church both of the Old Testament and New Testament; and that the building of such a house includes all the preparations of providence and grace needed to furnish it with "living stones" and fitting "servants." Thus, as Christ the Founder and Establisher (in Old Testament as well as the New Testament) is greater than the house so established, including the servants, He is greater also than Moses, who was but a "servant." Moses, as a servant, is a portion of the house, and less than the house; Christ, as the Instrumental Creator of all things, must be God, and so greater than the house of which Moses was but a part. Glory is the result of honor.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/hebrews/3.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses:</span> the Spirit proves to the Hebrews, that the gospel Prophet was not only like to, but more excellent than, their greatest prophet, and who had familiarity with God beyond others, as God testifieth, <span class="bld"><a href="/context/numbers/12-6.htm" title="And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision, and will speak to him in a dream....">Numbers 12:6-8</a></span>. This he proves by an undeniable supposition, that God is better than man; such is Christ; which he demonstrates by a work of God, his making the church and all things. If he made the church, then he is better than the whole church, and worthy of more honour than Moses, who is but a member of it. For this, <span class="ital">man</span> is not in the original, this gospel Prophet, who was God as well as man, the apostle and High Priest of Christians, was esteemed and accounted by God the Father, the best judge of worth, and who appointed him to his offices: he treated him more honourably than Moses, as he deserved it, having real excellency and worth in himself. He was God’s Son, Moses his servant. He lay in God’s bosom, saw his face, was his <span class="ital">fellow, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/zechariah/13-7.htm" title="Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, said the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand on the little ones.">Zechariah 13:7</a> <a href="/john/1-14.htm" title="And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.">John 1:14</a>,18</span>; Moses only heard his voice, and saw his <span class="ital">back parts, </span><span class="bldvs"> <a href="/exodus/33-19.htm" title="And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.">Exodus 33:19</a>,20,23 34:5-7</span>. Moses’s face only shined, but Christ’s person was entirely glorious, <span class="bld"><a href="/exodus/34-29.htm" title="And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.">Exodus 34:29</a>,30 <a href="/2_corinthians/3-7.htm" title="But if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:">2 Corinthians 3:7</a></span>: compare <span class="bld"><a href="/context/matthew/17-2.htm" title="And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light....">Matthew 17:2-6</a> <a href="/2_peter/1-17.htm" title="For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.">2 Peter 1:17</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">Inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house; </span> he is the cause, principal, efficient, and architect of this building, not a stone is laid in it without him. By this metaphor of <span class="ital">house</span> to which it relateth, is meant God’s spiritual building and temple, <span class="bld"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-10.htm" title="According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.">1 Corinthians 3:10</a>,16,17</span>; styled God’s household or family, <span class="bld"><a href="/context/ephesians/2-19.htm" title="Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;...">Ephesians 2:19-22</a></span>: in sum, God’s church, built by and on Christ, of which Moses was but one living stone or member, <span class="bld"><a href="/context/1_peter/2-4.htm" title="To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,...">1 Peter 2:4-8</a></span>. Therefore this builder ought to be esteemed and honoured above the church, or Moses, a member of it. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/hebrews/3.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses,.... Moses was counted worthy of glory and honour, and had it given him, both by God and by men; by God, as appears from the work he called him to, to deliver his people Israel, to reveal his mind and will to them, and to rule and govern them; and from the favours he showed him, as the miracles he did by him, the near converse he admitted him to, and the view he gave him of his glory, which he made to pass before him, and his regard to him at his death and burial, as well as the testimony he gave of him; and he was counted worthy of honour by men, and who gave it him, as Pharaoh and his people, and the Israelites. The Jews give very great commendations of him; they call him a father in the law, a father in wisdom, and a father in prophecy (u); and say, that he is the father, master, head, and prince of all the prophets (w); yea, the great prophet expected in the last days, they say, will be but next to Moses, their master (x): they observe, that there were more miracles wrought by, and for him, than were wrought by, and for all the prophets that have been since the world began (y); so that he not only exceeded them in the excellency and sublimity of prophecy, but in the multitude of miracles; but Christ is worthy of more glory than Moses, and has it given him by God, angels, and men: he is a greater Saviour than Moses; Moses was but a temporal saviour, but he is the author of spiritual and eternal salvation: he is a greater prophet than Moses, being the only begotten Son of God, who lay in the bosom of the Father, and has declared him, his mind and will, his Gospel, grace, and truth, as Moses never did: he is a greater King than he, being made higher than the kings of the earth: he did more miracles than Moses, and had a greater testimony from God than he had, as that he was his beloved Son, and to be heard; he was also raised, from the dead, and is set down at the right hand of God, and is appointed Judge of all; he is ministered to, and worshipped by angels, is believed on by men, who ascribe the whole glory of their salvation to him. <p>Inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house; this "house", or "temple", as the Arabic version renders it, is the church, of which Christ is the builder; though not to the exclusion of the Father and the Spirit, who are coefficient builders with him, nor of ministers of the Gospel as instruments, nor of believers in a private capacity, who build up one another; but he has the chief concern in the building, which lies in the conversion of souls, and in the edification of them, and is carried on by his Spirit in the ministry of the word and ordinances, and from hence he has a glory; see <a href="/zechariah/6-12.htm">Zechariah 6:12</a> a greater glory than Moses, seeing he was but a part of this house, at most but a pillar in it; but Christ is the builder, foundation, and cornerstone. <p>(u) T. Bab. Megilia, fol. 12. 1.((w) Shemot Rabba, sect. 21. fol. 106. 3. Maimon. Yesode Hattorah, c. 7. sect. 6. Obede Cochabim, c. 1. sect. 3. & in Misn Sanhedrin, c. 11. sect. 1. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 18. 3.((x) Maimon. Teshubah, c. 9. sect. 2.((y) Menasseh ben Israel, Conciliat. in Deut. qu. 11. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/hebrews/3.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2"><span class="cverse3">{4}</span> For this <i>man</i> was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.</span><p>(4) The first comparison: The builder of the house is better than the house itself, therefore Christ is better than Moses. The reason for the conclusion is this: because the builder of the house is God, which cannot be attributed to Moses; and therefore Moses was not the builder, but a part of the house: but Christ as Lord and God, made the house.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/meyer/hebrews/3.htm">Meyer's NT Commentary</a></div><a href="/hebrews/3-3.htm" title="For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house.">Hebrews 3:3</a>.[56] Continued alleging of reasons for the <span class="greekheb">κατα<span class="bld"><span class="ital">ΝΟΉΣΑΤΕ</span></span></span>, <a href="/hebrews/3-1.htm" title="Why, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;">Hebrews 3:1</a>, in bringing into more distinct relief the exaltedness of Christ above Moses. <a href="/hebrews/3-3.htm" title="For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house.">Hebrews 3:3</a> is not, as de Wette supposes, explication or analysis of <a href="/hebrews/3-2.htm" title="Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.">Hebrews 3:2</a>. For a placing upon a parallel cannot be explained or analysed by a placing superior.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb"><span class="bld"><span class="ital">ΑὟΤΟς</span></span></span>] <span class="ital">sc</span>. <span class="greekheb">Ἰησοῦς</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>On <span class="greekheb"><span class="bld"><span class="ital">ΠΑΡΆ</span></span></span> after a comparative, see at <a href="/hebrews/1-4.htm" title="Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.">Hebrews 1:4</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb"><span class="bld"><span class="ital">ἨΞΊΩΤΑΙ</span></span></span>] <span class="ital">has been counted worthy, sc</span>. by God. The verb stands, as ordinarily (comp. <a href="/2_thessalonians/1-5.htm" title="Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer:">2 Thessalonians 1:5</a>; <a href="/2_thessalonians/1-11.htm" title="Why also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:">2 Thessalonians 1:11</a>; <a href="/1_timothy/5-17.htm" title="Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.">1 Timothy 5:17</a>; <a href="/hebrews/10-29.htm" title="Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace?">Hebrews 10:29</a>), in the <span class="ital">real</span> sense, so that it includes the notion of the possession obtained.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>The <span class="ital">figure</span> in the proposition of comparison, <span class="greekheb">καθʼ ὅσον πλείονα τιμὴν ἔχει τοῦ οἴκου κ</span>.<span class="greekheb">τ</span>.<span class="greekheb">λ</span>., is occasioned by the preceding <span class="greekheb"><span class="bld"><span class="ital">ἘΝ ὍΛῼ Τῷ ΟἼΚῼ ΑὐΤΟῦ</span></span></span> added in <a href="/hebrews/3-2.htm" title="Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.">Hebrews 3:2</a>. The words contain a truth of universal validity, the application of which, for the rest, to Christ and Moses, follows of itself. Greater honour than the house (in the wider sense [of household], the family and servants included therein) has he who has prepared it. Thus, also, Christ stands higher in honour and glory than Moses. For founder and establisher of the house of God, or the divine kingdom,—which in its first formations reaches back to the time of the Old Covenant, but by the New Covenant comes to full realization,—is <span class="ital">Christ</span>; while Moses is only a part of the <span class="greekheb">οἶκος</span> itself, only a (ministering, cf. <a href="/hebrews/3-5.htm" title="And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;">Hebrews 3:5</a>) member of this house, or an <span class="greekheb"><span class="bld"><span class="ital">ΟἸΚΈΤΗς</span></span></span> in the same. Confusing and full of caprice is the indication of the connection of thought of <a href="/context/hebrews/3-3.htm" title="For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house....">Hebrews 3:3-6</a> as given by Delitzsch. See, in opposition to him, Riehm, <span class="ital">Lehrbegr. des Hebräerbr</span>. p. 309.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">τοῦ οἴκου</span>] is governed by the comparative <span class="greekheb"><span class="bld"><span class="ital">ΠΛΕΊΟΝΑ</span></span></span>: <span class="ital">more</span> (greater) <span class="ital">honour than the house</span>. Mistakenly do Homberg, Wolf, Peirce, Michaelis, Heumann, Semler, Morus, Ernesti, Heinrichs, Paulus, Stengel, and others make it depend upon <span class="greekheb">τιμήν</span>: <span class="ital">greater honour of the house, or in the house</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">κατασκευάζειν</span>] implies more than <span class="greekheb"><span class="bld"><span class="ital">ΟἸΚΟΔΟΜΕῖΝ</span></span></span>. Not only the <span class="ital">erection</span> of the house, but also the <span class="ital">arrangement</span> thereof, the providing of it with the necessary furniture and servants, is thereby expressed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>[56] Comp. Gabler, <span class="ital">Dissert. exeg. in illustrem locum <a href="/context/hebrews/3-3.htm" title="For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house....">Hebrews 3:3-6</a></span>, Jena 1778. (Reprinted in the <span class="ital">Opuscc. acad</span>. vol. II. Ulm 1831, 8.)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/hebrews/3.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">3</span>. <span class="ital">For this man</span>] Rather, “For <span class="ital">He</span>,” i.e. Christ. The “for” depends on the “Consider.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">was counted worthy</span>] Rather, “hath been deemed worthy,” namely, by God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">more glory</span>] Rather, “a fuller glory” (<span class="ital">amplioris gloriae</span>, Vulg.).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">of more glory than Moses</span>] Eagerly as the writer is pressing forwards to develop his original and central conception of Christ as our Eternal High Priest, he yet has to pause to prove His superiority over Moses, because the Jews had begun to elevate Moses into a position of almost supernatural grandeur which would have its effect on the imaginations of wavering and almost apostatising converts. Thus the Rabbis said that “the soul of Moses was equivalent to the souls of all Israel;” (because by the cabbalistic process called <span class="ital">Gematria</span> the numerical value of the letters of “Moses our Rabbi” in Hebrew = 613, which is also the value of the letters of “Lord God of Israel”). They said that “the face of Moses. was like the Sun;” that he alone “saw through a clear glass” not as other prophets “through a dim glass” (comp. St Paul’s “through a mirror in a riddle,” <a href="/1_corinthians/13-12.htm" title="For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.">1 Corinthians 13:12</a>) and that whereas there are but fifty gates of understanding in the world, “all but one were opened to Moses.” See the Rabbinic references in my <span class="ital">Early days of Christianity</span>, 1. 362. St Paul in <a href="/context/2_corinthians/3-7.htm" title="But if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:...">2 Corinthians 3:7-8</a> contrasts the evanescing splendour on the face of Moses with the unchanging glory of Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">he who hath builded the house</span>] The verb (<span class="greekheb">κατασκευάσας</span>) implies rather “equipped” or “established” than “builded” (see <a href="/hebrews/9-2.htm" title="For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the show bread; which is called the sanctuary.">Hebrews 9:2</a>; <a href="/hebrews/9-6.htm" title="Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.">Hebrews 9:6</a>, <a href="/hebrews/11-7.htm" title="By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.">Hebrews 11:7</a> and note on <a href="/hebrews/1-2.htm" title="Has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;">Hebrews 1:2</a>; <a href="http://apocrypha.org/wisdom_of_solomon/13-4.htm" title="But if they were astonished at their power and virtue, let them understand by them, how much mightier he is that made them.">Wis 13:4</a>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">hath more honour than the house</span>] The point of this expression is not very obvious. If taken strictly it would imply that Moses was himself “the house” which Christ built. But <span class="greekheb">οἶκος</span>, “house” or “<span class="ital">household</span>” means more than the mere building (<span class="greekheb">οἰκία</span>), It means the whole theocratic family, the House of Israel in its covenant relation; and though Moses was not this House, he was more than a servant in it being also its direct representative and human head. (There is a somewhat similar phrase in Philo, <span class="ital">De plant. Noe</span>, 16.)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/bengel/hebrews/3.htm">Bengel's Gnomen</a></div><a href="/hebrews/3-3.htm" title="For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house.">Hebrews 3:3</a>. <span class="greekheb">Πλείονος</span>, <span class="ital">of more</span>) Christ, a prophet as Moses, <a href="/acts/3-22.htm" title="For Moses truly said to the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you of your brothers, like to me; him shall you hear in all things whatever he shall say to you.">Acts 3:22</a>, note (whereas the other prophets only explained Moses); and yet He was different from Moses, ch. <a href="/hebrews/8-9.htm" title="Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, said the Lord.">Hebrews 8:9</a>; <a href="/john/1-7.htm" title="The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.">John 1:7</a>. He is greater than Moses according to this passage.—<span class="greekheb">γὰρ</span>, <span class="ital">for</span>) The reason assigned (Ætiology) has relation to <span class="greekheb">κατανοήσατε</span>, <span class="ital">consider</span>.—<span class="greekheb">δόξης</span>, <span class="ital">glory</span>) Presently afterwards, <span class="greekheb">τιμὴν</span>, <span class="ital">honour:</span> <span class="greekheb">τιμὴ</span> here rather denotes something internal; <span class="greekheb">δόξα</span> follows it.—<span class="greekheb">τοῦ οἴκου</span>) The genitive is governed by <span class="greekheb">πλείονα</span>, the comparative; for it is an Enthymeme [a covert syllogism, wherein one or other premiss needs to be supplied], as follows: Christ is greater than the house (for the house is being prepared [‘built,’ <span class="greekheb">κατασκευάζεται</span>]; Christ hath prepared [‘built’] the house and all things, and so Christ is God): therefore Christ is greater than Moses. The reason is: for Moses is less than the house, as a minister and as in some measure a portion of the house; comp. <a href="/matthew/12-6.htm" title="But I say to you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.">Matthew 12:6</a>, note.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hebrews/3.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 3.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">For of more glory than Moses hath this man</span> (so A.V., for <span class="greek">οὕτος</span>, supplying "man," though it is to be observed that the <span class="accented">humanity</span> of the person spoken of is not expressed in the original) <span class="cmt_word">been counted worthy</span> (<span class="greek">ἠξίωται</span>: cf. <a href="/luke/7-7.htm">Luke 7:7</a>; <a href="/1_timothy/5-17.htm">1 Timothy 5:17</a>; <a href="/hebrews/10-24.htm">Hebrews 10:24</a>; <a href="/2_thessalonians/1-11.htm">2 Thessalonians 1:11</a>), <span class="cmt_word">by so much as more honor than the house hath he that built</span> (or, <span class="accented">established</span>) <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>it</span>. Here the account of Christ's <span class="accented">superiority</span> to Moses begins. On the several expressions used we remark: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> The initiatory <span class="greek">γὰρ</span> connects the sentence logically with <span class="greek">κατανοήσατε</span> in ver. 1, and thus retains its usual sense of "for." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> The form of comparison in the Greek, <span class="greek">πλείονος παρὰ</span>, is the same as in <a href="/hebrews/1-4.htm">Hebrews 1:4</a>, where the account of Christ's superiority to <span class="accented">angels</span> began (on which see <span class="accented">supra</span>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(3)</span> The "glory" (<span class="greek">δόξα</span>) here assigned to Christ is the" glory and honor" spoken of above as attained by him in consequence of his human obedience (cf. <a href="/hebrews/2-9.htm">Hebrews 2:9</a>, "because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor"). This, rather than "the glory he had with the Father before the world was" (<a href="/john/17-5.htm">John 17:5</a>), is suggested by the word <span class="greek">ἠξίωται</span>, as well as by the drift of the preceding chapters. We may suppose also a reference, in contrast, to the transitory "glory" on the countenance of Moses (<span class="greek">ἡ</span> <span class="greek">καταργουμένη</span>), which is contrasted (<a href="/2_corinthians/3.htm">2 Corinthians 3</a>.) with the <span class="greek">ὑπερβαλλούση δόξα</span> in Christ. We observe, further, that in the latter part of the verse <span class="greek">τιμή</span> is substituted for <span class="greek">δόξα</span>, as more suitable to the mundane comparison of a house and its builder. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(4)</span> <span class="greek">Κατασκευάζειν</span> may include the idea of fitting up and furnishing a house as well as building it. But what is the drift of the intended argument? It is usual, with the Fathers generally, to suppose that Christ (<span class="greek">οὕτος</span>) is intended to be denoted as the Builder or Establisher of the house in which Hoses was a servant, and that the argument is that he, as such, is necessarily greater than the servant, who was but a part of the house, or household, thus established. <span class="greek">Οϊκος</span>, it is to be observed, may include in its meaning the <span class="accented">familia</span>, as well as the house itself, as <span class="greek">κατασκευάζειν</span> may include the idea of constituting the whole establishment (cf. <span class="accented">infra</span>, "whose house we are"). Among moderns, Hofmann and Delitzsch deny this identification of <span class="greek">ὁ κατασκευάσας</span> with <span class="greek">οὕτος</span>: against which there are the following reasons: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> The SON has not been represented so far in the Epistle as the <span class="accented">originator</span> of the economy of redemption. Notwithstanding distinct intimations of his eternal proexistent Deity (as in <a href="/hebrews/1-1.htm">Hebrews 1:1, 2, 10</a>), it has been as the Messiah, the Apostle and High Priest, manifested in time, and passing through humanity to glory, that he has been regarded in the preceding argument. Nor is there any proof here adduced of his being the <span class="accented">Builder</span> of the "house," so as to justify the conclusion on this ground of his glory being greater than that of Moses. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> The word <span class="greek">ἠξίωται</span> ("has been counted worthy of") suggests (as has been already remarked) refer once to the glory won by him, "on account of the suffering of death," rather than to his pristine glory as the Divine Builder. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(3)</span> Elsewhere in the New Testament, when the Church is referred to under the figure of a house, it is spoken of as <span class="accented">God's</span> building (cf. <a href="/hebrews/10-21.htm">Hebrews 10:21</a>; <a href="/1_timothy/3-15.htm">1 Timothy 3:15</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/3-9.htm">1 Corinthians 3:9, 16</a>; <a href="/2_corinthians/6-16.htm">2 Corinthians 6:16</a>; <a href="/ephesians/2-22.htm">Ephesians 2:22</a>; <a href="/1_peter/4-17.htm">1 Peter 4:17</a>; <a href="/1_peter/2-5.htm">1 Peter 2:5</a>). It is never spoken of as Christ's. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(4)</span> The wording of ver. 3 does not necessitate the identification of <span class="greek">ὁ κατασκευάσας</span> with <span class="greek">οὕτος</span>. <span class="greek">Καθ ὅσον</span> means "so far as;" it implies only that the glory of Christ is greater than that of Moses, <span class="accented">in proportion as</span> the honor of the builder is greater than that of the house. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(5)</span> The identification increases the difficulty of understanding the relevance to the argument of ver. 4, of which more will be said presently. Taking, then, <span class="greek">ὁ κατασκευάσας</span> to denote God the Father, we may state the argument thus: God is the Builder, or Founder, of his own house. Christ has been already shown to be his SON, associated with him in dignity and power, and, as such, Lord over his Father's house. Moses, on the other hand, as appears from <a href="/numbers/12-7.htm">Numbers 12:7</a>, was but a servant in God's house. As, then, the Founder is to the house, so is the Son and Lord to a servant in it; the Son partaking of the glory of the Founder; the servant only of that of the house in which he serves. According to this view of the argument, the premises have been established, and the conclusion follows; the relation of Christ to the Builder of the house has been set forth in the preceding chapter, and may be now assumed; that of Moses is sufficiently shown by the quotation from the Pentateuch. Thus also vers. 5 and 6 are found to carry out naturally the idea here introduced, instead of unexpectedly starting a different one. Hebrews 3:3<a name="vws" id="vws"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/vws/hebrews/3.htm">Vincent's Word Studies</a></div>Was counted worthy (ἠξίωται)<p>Used both of reward which is due (<a href="/1_timothy/5-17.htm">1 Timothy 5:17</a>) and of punishment (<a href="/hebrews/10-29.htm">Hebrews 10:29</a>).<p>Of more glory (πλείονος δόξης)<p>Comp. <a href="http://biblehub.com/hebrews/2-8.htm">Hebrews 2:8</a>, <a href="/hebrews/2-9.htm">Hebrews 2:9</a>.<p>Inasmuch as (καθ' ὅσον)<p>Rend. by so much as. The argument is based on the general principle that the founder of a house is entitled to more honor than the house and its individual servants. There is an apparent confusion in the working out, since both God and Christ appear as builders, and Moses figures both as the house and as a servant in the house. 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