For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
You have already been made partakers of the benefits of Christ, at your conversion and baptism, to the beginning of his substance, by which seems to be understood the faith of Christ. (Witham)
If to subsist in Jesus Christ, to be washed in his blood, to be animated with his spirit, to be nourished with his flesh, is but a sketch, a seed of that union with him which on a future day is to be effected, how comes it that we are so attached to this earth, how can we hazard for such a mere trifle such immense felicity?
Then he adds Hebrews 3:14, For we have been made partakers of Christ. What is this, We have been made partakers of Christ? We partake of Him (he means); we were made One, we and He— since He is the Head and we the body, fellow-heirs and of the same body; we are one body, of His flesh and of His bones. Ephesians 3:6; Romans 12:5; Ephesians 5:30
If we hold fast the beginning of our confidence [or, the principle of our subsistence ] steadfast unto the end. What is the principle of our subsistence? The faith by which we stand, and have been brought into being and were made to exist, as one may say.
