<p>3:3 <i>For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, in that he that built the house has more honour than the house</i>- Judaism considered Moses worthy of higher glory than any Messiah figure. Again Paul is attacking their concept of Messiah as inadequate. The &quot;house&quot; of Messiah is different to that of Moses; Messiah built &quot;his own house&quot; (:6) and was and is faithful over it. Moses did not build the house of Israel; God did. Moses was placed over it. Messiah built His own house and was faithful over it. &quot;He that built the house&quot; doesn't mean that Christ built the house of Moses. It has a general reference to the fact that Messiah built and rules over <i>His </i>house, whereas Moses built no house but was simply placed over the house of Israel at the time. To build a house / family means to have children and raise them. This is what the Lord Jesus has done by having spiritual children of His own nature, as taught previously in 2:13, where the Lord is likened to Isaiah building up his faithful family, and we are as Isaiah's children of prophetic witness. Judaism had so glorified Israel as a people that they were effectively saying that they had as much glory as God who built them. They were confusing the creator and the created, as Paul points out in Romans 1. Effectively, Judaism was making Moses equal to God. The Rabbis argued that by gematria the numerical value of &ldquo;Moses our Rabbi&rdquo; was 613, which is also the value of the letters of &ldquo;Lord God of Israel&rdquo;. Paul is seeking to refocus them upon the basics- that God is greater than Moses, and Messiah likewise is, for He has built a greater house which He is Lord over.</p>