Christ’s blood not common; speaker from heaven; same yesterday and forever

So the one who has broken the law has fallen under the sentence of death, while the one who has wronged a human might even be worthy of pardon. How, then, is the one who counted Christ’s blood a common thing under a worse sentence than the one who sins against Moses’ law? Yet he is under a worse one — and very fittingly. Christ’s blood is not common, then: for the Word was God, having become flesh.

“See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we turn away from the one who warns from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth, but now he has promised: Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.” Who is the one who warned on earth, whom the fathers of the Jews refused and so were put in danger? Clearly Moses. But Christ is not from earth; rather from the heavens. For the God Word from above and from the Father became human — and is God. So the sentence is worse for those who turn away from him, and very fittingly. As wise John says: “He who is of the earth speaks from the earth” — that is, human things — “but he who comes from above is above all,” as God, of course. And that is what Christ was and is.

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” We will find the Word sprung from God called Jesus Christ when he became human from a woman. How, then, is he the same yesterday and today and forever? Clearly by union with the Word from God into one Son, the flesh assumed by him being understood with him. For so the Word’s unchangeableness by nature remains for him even when he is understood with the flesh.