Athanasius of Alexandria, on Heb 8:6

“But now he hath obtained a better ministry, by how much also he is a mediator of a better testament, which is established on better promises.”

“"It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these." Both in the verse before us, then, and throughout, does he ascribe the word better to the Lord, who is better and other than originated things. For better is the sacrifice through him, better the hope in him and also the promises through him, not merely as great compared with small, but the one differing from the other in nature, because he who conducts this economy, is better than things originated.”

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