Photios I of Constantinople, on Heb 5:7

“Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.”

“Two things are most in need of investigation here. First, how can he say, "He was heard," and yet he himself begged not to enter into death? He did not avoid death, for he was crucified and died. Second, on the basis of what sort of "godliness" was he heard? And third, to what should the phrase "although he was a Son" be adjoined? Does it belong to the clause "he was heard because of his godliness" or to the clause that follows, so that it would read, "although he was a Son, he learned obedience from the things he suffered"? For it is not a small difference between those two.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.