Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews

Moreover he did not say, We think, or, we conjecture, or, we expect, or, we hope, but what? “But beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.” Which word he also used in writing to the Galatians: “But I am persuaded of you in the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded.” For in that instance, inasmuch as they were greatly to be condemned, and he could not praise them from things present, he does it from things future (“that you will be none otherwise minded,” he says): he said not, you are, but “ye will be none otherwise minded.” But here he encourages them from things present. “We are persuaded better things of you, beloved, and things that accompany to salvation, though we thus speak.” And since he was not able to say so much from things present, he confirms his consolation from things past; and says,