Hebrews 3:3

‘For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house has more honour than the house.’

Thus was He counted as worthy of more glory than Moses. Because it was He Who ‘built’ the house of which Moses was a part. It was He who created the world and brought it into being (Hebrews 1:2). It was He Who upheld it by His powerful word (Hebrews 1:3). It was He Who established Abraham and had brought him into being and had taken hold of him and his seed (Hebrews 2:16). It was He Who had established Abraham’s grandson Jacob/Israel and had thus brought Israel into being. Thus Moses himself was a part of that people established by Jesus. Jesus had built the house, and had therefore more honour than the house and all those who were of the house, even their greatest leader. And in the end He built His own house, made up of all true believers, built on the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, being Himself the chief cornerstone (Ephesians 2:20).

Note the use of the two nouns ‘glory’ and honour’, the same as were previously applied to Jesus in Hebrews 2:9. Here is an example of His glory and honour which were His from the beginning, and which He received as ‘the second man’, glory as a Man greater than Moses, and honour as the builder of the house, as Man. The commencement of the building occurred from the beginning, but a new commencement began while He was Man on earth (Matthew 16:18).