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II. GESU' SOMMO SACERDOTE FEDELE E MISERICORDIOSO

Il Cristo superiore a Mosè

Perciò, fratelli santi, partecipi di una vocazione celeste, fissate bene lo sguardo in Gesù, l'apostolo e sommo sacerdote della fede che noi professiamo, il quale è fedele a colui che l'ha costituito, come lo fu anche Mosè in tutta la sua casa. Ma in confronto a Mosè, egli è stato giudicato degno di tanta maggior gloria, quanto l'onore del costruttore della casa supera quello della casa stessa. Ogni casa infatti viene costruita da qualcuno; ma colui che ha costruito tutto è Dio. In verità Mosè fu fedele in tutta la sua casa come servitore, per rendere testimonianza di ciò che doveva essere annunziato più tardi; Cristo, invece, lo fu come figlio costituito sopra la sua propria casa. E la sua casa siamo noi, se conserviamo la libertà e la speranza di cui ci vantiamo.

La fede introduce nel riposo di Dio

Per questo, come dice lo Spirito Santo:

Oggi, se udite la sua voce,
non indurite i vostri cuori come nel giorno della
ribellione,
il giorno della tentazione nel deserto,
dove mi tentarono i vostri padri mettendomi alla prova,
pur avendo visto per quarant'anni le mie opere.
10 Perciò mi disgustai di quella generazione
e dissi: Sempre hanno il cuore sviato.
Non hanno conosciuto le mie vie.
11 Così ho giurato nella mia ira:
Non entreranno nel mio riposo.

12 Guardate perciò, fratelli, che non si trovi in nessuno di voi un cuore perverso e senza fede che si allontani dal Dio vivente. 13 Esortatevi piuttosto a vicenda ogni giorno, finché dura quest'oggi, perché nessuno di voi si indurisca sedotto dal peccato. 14 Siamo diventati infatti partecipi di Cristo, a condizione di mantenere salda sino alla fine la fiducia che abbiamo avuta da principio. 15 Quando pertanto si dice:

Oggi, se udite la sua voce,
non indurite i vostri cuori come nel giorno della
ribellione,

16 chi furono quelli che, dopo aver udita la sua voce, si ribellarono? Non furono tutti quelli che erano usciti dall'Egitto sotto la guida di Mosè? 17 E chi furono coloro di cui si è disgustato per quarant'anni? Non furono quelli che avevano peccato e poi caddero cadaveri nel deserto? 18 E a chi giurò che non sarebbero entrati nel suo riposo, se non a quelli che non avevano creduto? 19 In realtà vediamo che non vi poterono entrare a causa della loro mancanza di fede.

Jesus Greater Than Moses

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters,(A) who share in the heavenly calling,(B) fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge(C) as our apostle and high priest.(D) He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.(E) Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses,(F) just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.(G) “Moses was faithful as a servant(H) in all God’s house,”[a](I) bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future. But Christ is faithful as the Son(J) over God’s house. And we are his house,(K) if indeed we hold firmly(L) to our confidence and the hope(M) in which we glory.

Warning Against Unbelief

So, as the Holy Spirit says:(N)

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts(O)
as you did in the rebellion,
    during the time of testing in the wilderness,
where your ancestors tested and tried me,
    though for forty years they saw what I did.(P)
10 That is why I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
    and they have not known my ways.’
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,(Q)
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ (R)[b](S)

12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.(T) 13 But encourage one another daily,(U) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.(V) 14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold(W) our original conviction firmly to the very end.(X) 15 As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts
    as you did in the rebellion.”[c](Y)

16 Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?(Z) 17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?(AA) 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest(AB) if not to those who disobeyed?(AC) 19 So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.(AD)

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 3:5 Num. 12:7
  2. Hebrews 3:11 Psalm 95:7-11
  3. Hebrews 3:15 Psalm 95:7,8

The Son Was Faithful

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as (A)Moses also was faithful in all His house. For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as (B)He who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but (C)He who built all things is God. (D)And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as (E)a servant, (F)for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, but Christ as (G)a Son over His own house, (H)whose house we are (I)if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope [a]firm to the end.

Be Faithful(J)

Therefore, as (K)the Holy Spirit says:

(L)“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but [b]exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said:

(M)“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Failure of the Wilderness Wanderers

16 (N)For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, (O)whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And (P)to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of (Q)unbelief.

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 3:6 NU omits firm to the end
  2. Hebrews 3:13 encourage