SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:8
Jess el Cristo es el mismo ayer, y hoy, y por los siglos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Hebrew 13:8
Verse 8. Jesus Christ the same yesterday] In all past times there was no way to the holiest but through the blood of Jesus, either actually shed, or significantly typified. To- day - he is the lamb newly slain, and continues to appear in the presence of God for us. For ever - to the conclusion of time, he will be the way, the truth, and the life, none coming to the Father but through him; and throughout eternity, eiv touv aiwnav, it will appear that all glorified human spirits owe their salvation to his infinite merit. This Jesus was thus witnessed of by your guides, who are already departed to glory. Remember HIM; remember them; and take heed to yourselves.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and for ever .] Who is the substance of the word spoken by the above mentioned rulers, the author and object of their faith, and the end in which their conversation terminated. These words may be expressive of the duration of Christ: he was yesterday, which does not design the day immediately foregoing, nor some little time past, but ancient times, formerly, of old; and though it does not extend to eternity, which is true of Christ, yet may be carried further than to the days of his flesh here on earth, even to the whole Old Testament dispensation; yea, to the beginning of the world, when he existed not only as the eternal Word, the everlasting I am, but as the Saviour and Redeemer of his people; during which dispensation he frequently appeared in an human form, and was the sum of all promises and prophecies, and the substance of all types and shadows, and the spiritual food of his people: and he is today under the Gospel dispensation; in his person as God-man, and in his offices as prophet, priest, and King: and will be so for ever: he will never die more; his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his priesthood an unchangeable one. Moreover, these words may regard the immutability of Christ; who is unchangeable in his person, perfections, and essence, as God; and in his love to his people; and in the fulness of his grace, and in the efficacy of his blood, and in the virtue of his sacrifice and righteousness: it may be observed, that o autov , translated the same, answers to awh , he, a name of God, ( <19A227> Psalm 102:27 Isaiah 48:12) and which is used in Jewish writings for a name of God; and so it is among the Turks f312 : and it is expressive of his eternity, immutability, and independence; and well agrees with Christ, who is God over all, blessed for ever.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-15 - The instructions and examples of ministers, who honourably an comfortably closed their testimony, should be particularly remembere by survivors. And though their ministers were some dead, others dying yet the great Head and High Priest of the church, the Bishop of their souls, ever lives, and is ever the same. Christ is the same in the Ol Testament day. as in the gospel day, and will be so to his people for ever, equally merciful, powerful, and all-sufficient. Still he fill the hungry, encourages the trembling, and welcomes repenting sinners still he rejects the proud and self-righteous, abhors mere profession and teaches all whom he saves, to love righteousness, and to hat iniquity. Believers should seek to have their hearts established in simple dependence on free grace, by the Holy Spirit, which woul comfort their hearts, and render them proof against delusion. Christ is both our Altar and our Sacrifice; he sanctifies the gift. The Lord' supper is the feast of the gospel passover. Having showed that keepin to the Levitical law would, according to its own rules, keep men from the Christian altar, the apostle adds, Let us go forth therefore unt him without the camp; go forth from the ceremonial law, from sin, from the world, and from ourselves. Living by faith in Christ, set apart to God through his blood, let us willingly separate from this evil world Sin, sinners, nor death, will not suffer us to continue long here therefore let us go forth now by faith and seek in Christ the rest an peace which this world cannot afford us. Let us bring our sacrifices to this altar, and to this our High Priest, and offer them up by him. The sacrifice of praise to God, we should offer always. In this are worshi and prayer, as well as thanksgiving.
Greek Textus Receptus
ιησους 2424 χριστος 5547 χθες 5504 και 2532 σημερον 4594 ο 3588 αυτος 846 και 2532 εις 1519 τους 3588 αιωνας 165
Vincent's NT Word Studies
8. Jesus Christ the same (Ihsouv Cristov o autov). The A.V. is slipshod, leaving the sentence without connection, or in apparent apposition with the end of their conversation. In translation this is commonly corrected by inserting is: "Jesus Christ is the same," etc. But even thus the real point of the statement is missed. No doubt the old teachers believed in the unchangeableness of Jesus Christ; but that fact is not represented as the subject of their faith, which would be irrelevant and somewhat flat. The emphatic point of the statement is Christ. They lived and died in the faith that Jesus is THE CHRIST - the Messiah. The readers were tempted to surrender this faith and to return to Judaism which denied Jesus's messiahship (comp. ch. x. 29). Hence the writer says, "hold fast and imitate their faith in Jesus as the Christ. He is ever the same. He must be to you, today, what he was to them, yesterday, and will be forever to the heavenly hosts - CHRIST. Rend. therefore "Jesus is Christ." Observe that our writer rarely uses the formula Jesus Christ. In ch. x. 10 it occurs in a passage in which the messianic mission of Jesus is emphasized (see vers. 5, 9), and in xiii. 21, in a liturgical formula. The temptation to forsake Jesus as Messiah is treated in the next verse.
