<p>2:10 <i>For it became Him for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the author of their salvation- </i>The God for whom are all things wishes to bring many sons to glory- not just one, the Lord Jesus. He who could do all things, whose are all things, worked out His purpose of having many glorious sons through giving them an author of salvation who was perfected through sufferings. That salvation has to be authored for each son makes it personal, and the relationship between the author and the authored the more intimate. The false idea of each person having an inherent &quot;immortal soul&quot; totally destroys the wonder of eternal salvation being personally authored for each of us. The same word for &quot;author&quot; is used in this sense in 12:2, where Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith. By His grace He began faith in people, and the grace / gift of His Spirit finishes our faith in salvation. Through that path the Lord Jesus is the author of our salvation.</p><p><i>Perfect through sufferings</i>- The Lord Jesus alone could say, with full meaning, &ldquo;I am&rdquo;. Who He appeared to be, was who He essentially was. He alone achieved a completely integrated, real self. He was what Paul called the &ldquo;perfect man&rdquo;, the completed, integrated person (Eph. 4:13). But He had to work on this. Hebrews always speaks of Him as &ldquo;perfected&rdquo;, as a verb (Heb. 2:10; 5:9; 7:28)- never with the adjective &lsquo;perfect&rsquo;. Apart from being a major problem for Trinitarian views, this simple fact sets Him up as <i>our</i> pattern, whom the Father seeks like wise &lsquo;to perfect&rsquo;. Yet the path the Lord had to take to achieve this was hard indeed. His final point of perfection was reached at the moment of His death; the sufferings of death elicited within Him that final point of completion / perfection. Which was why He died at just that point. And this adds infinite meaning to the sufferings of death which are our common experience.</p>