Hebrews 3:2

who was faithful Lit., "Being faithful," i.e. as Cranmer excellently rendered it, "how that he is faithful." The word is suggested by the following contrast between Christ and Moses, of whom it had been said "My servant Moses is not so, who was faithfulin all mine house," Numbers 12:7.

to him that appointed him Lit., "to Him that madeHim." There can be little doubt that the expression means, as in the A.V. "to Him that made Him such," i.e. made Him an Apostle and High Priest. For the phrase is doubtless suggested by 1 Samuel 12:6, where the LXX. has "He that madeMoses and Aaron" (A.V. "advanced"); comp. Mark 3:14, "And He made(ἐποίησε) Twelve, that they should be with Him." Acts 2:36, "God made Him Lord and Christ." The rendering "appointed" is therefore a perfectly faithful one. Still the peculiarity of the phrase was eagerly seized upon by Arians to prove that Christ was a created Being, and this was one of the causes which retarded the general acceptance of the Epistle. Yet even if "made" was not here used in the sense of "appointed" the Arians would have had no vantage ground; for the word might have been applied to the Incarnation (so Athanasius, and Primasius), though not (as Bleek and Lünemann take it) to the Eternal Generation of the Son. Theodoret and Chrysostom understood it as our Version does.

as also Moses … in all his house Rather, "in all His(God's) house," Numbers 12:7. The house is God'shouse or household, i.e. the theocratic family of which the Tabernacle was a symbol "the house of God which is the Church of the living God," 1 Timothy 3:15. The "faithfulness" of Moses consisted in teaching the Israelites all that God had commanded him (Deuteronomy 4:5) and himself "doing according to all that the Lord commanded him" (Exodus 40:16).