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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yea and forever (Iēsous Christos echthes kai sēmeron ho autos kai eis tous aiōnas). There is no copula in the Greek. Vincent insists that estin be supplied between Iēsous and Christos, “Jesus is Christ,” but it more naturally comes after Christos as the Revised Version has it. The old adverb echthes is rare in the N.T. (Joh 4:52; Act 7:28; Heb 13:8). Here it refers to the days of Christ’s flesh (Heb 2:3; Heb 5:7) and to the recent work of the leaders (Heb 13:7). “Today” (sēmeron, Heb 3:15) is the crisis which confronts them. “Forever” (eis tous aiōnas) is eternity as well as the Greek can say it. Jesus Christ is eternally “the same” (Heb 1:12) and the revelation of God in him (Heb 1:1.) is final and never to be superseded or supplemented (Moffatt). Hence the peril of apostasy from the only hope of man.