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Whose house are we (hou oikos esmen hēmeis). We Christians (Jew and Gentile) looked at as a whole, not as a local organization.
If we hold fast (ean kataschōmen). Condition of third class with ean and second aorist (effective) active subjunctive of katechō. This note of contingency and doubt runs all through the Epistle. We are God’s house if we do not play the traitor and desert.
Boldness (parrēsian) and glorying (kai kauchēma) some had lost. The author makes no effort to reconcile this warning with God’s elective purpose. He is not exhorting God, but these wavering Christians. All these are Pauline words. B does not have mechri telous bebaian (firm unto the end), but it is clearly genuine in Heb 3:14. He pleads for intelligent confidence.