Theophylact of Ohrid, on Heb 13:20

“And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the everlasting testament,”

“First of all, having asked them for prayers and honored them by this, he then also prays for them himself. Since, he says, God is the God of peace, you should not be agitated against me, and moreover on the basis of mere hearsay alone. He instills in them the teaching about the resurrection, making use of the prophecy of Isaiah (Is. 10). And since there are also other shepherds—lesser ones—he said "great." For the prophets are many teachers, but Christ is the one instructor for all. That is, He raised Him from the dead after His death and after the shedding of His Blood, so that He gave us a covenant not subject, like the covenant of the law, to annulment, but an eternal one. For thus He raised Him from the dead with the Blood of the eternal covenant. For after the resurrection He granted us His Blood in a covenant. For if He had not risen, His Blood would not have served us as a covenant.”

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