Hebrews 3:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For we are made partakers of Christ Of all the blessings procured by his death, and offered in his gospel, even of pardon, holiness, and eternal life; if we hold If we retain with constancy and perseverance; the beginning of our confidence That is, the confidence or trust we have begun to place in him; steadfast Βεβαιαν, firm; unto the end Of our lives, whatever difficulties or oppositions may arise. Dr. Owen (who, by being partakers of Christ, understands our having an interest in his nature, by the communication of his Spirit, as Christ had in ours by the assumption of our flesh) interprets the word υποστασις, here rendered confidence, of that union which we are bound to preserve and maintain with Christ, or of our subsistence in him, our abiding in him as the branches in the vine, observing, “So the word very properly signifies, and so it is here emphatically used.” He adds, “the beginning of our subsistence in Christ, and of our engagements to him, is, for the most part, accompanied with much love and other choice affections, resolution, and courage; which, without great care and watchfulness, we are very ready to decay in and fall from.”