Robertson Word Pictures - Hebrews 3:2 - 3:2

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Who was faithful (piston onta). Present active participle with predicate accusative agreeing with Iēsoun, “as being faithful.”

That appointed him (tōi poiēsanti auton). See 1Sa 12:6. Dative case of the articular participle (aorist active) of poieō and the reference is to God. Note pistos as in Heb 2:17.

As also was Moses (hōs kai Mōusēs). The author makes no depreciatory remarks about Moses as he did not about the prophets and the angels. He cheerfully admits that Moses was faithful “in all his house” (en holōi tōi oikōi autou), an allusion to Num 12:7 (ean holōi tōi oikōi mou) about Moses. The “his” is God’s. The use of oikos for the people (family) of God, not the building, but the group (1Ti 3:15) in which God is the Father. But wherein is Jesus superior to Moses? The argument is keen and skillful.