SYNO | Epistle to the Hebrews | Hebrews |
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- His "Commentaries on St John's Gospel" (1881), on the "Epistle to the Hebrews" (1889), and the "Epistles of St John" (1883), resulted from his public lectures.
- For instance, he divided the Pauline epistles (including the Epistle to the Hebrews) into a series of texts based on their theological points and wrote an introduction to each section.
- Christians still see Jesus as the ultimate divine example- in Epistle to the Hebrews: "looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith" (12:2).
- He is praised for his faith in the Epistle to the Hebrews.
- Jephthah is referenced once in the Epistle to the Hebrews 11:32 where he is commended for his faith.
- The tabernacle is mentioned several times in the Epistle to the Hebrews in the New Testament.
- In the Christian New Testament, the Epistle of James and the Epistle to the Hebrews follow the tradition set by the translators of the Septuagint in using the Greek word "πόρνη" ("pórnē", which is usually translated to English as "harlot" or "prostitute") to describe Rahab.
- The prologue to the Pauline Epistles in the Vulgate defends the Pauline authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews, directly contrary to Jerome's own views—a key argument in demonstrating that Jerome did not write it.
- A synod in Hippo in 393 repeated Athanasius' and Damasus' New Testament list (without the Epistle to the Hebrews), and the Council of Carthage (397) repeated Athanasius' and Damasus' complete New Testament list.
- In all of these epistles, except the Epistle to the Hebrews, the author and writer does claim to be Paul.
- Martin Luther and some modern scholars have proposed Apollos as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, rather than Paul or Barnabas.
- Marcion's Apostolikon did not include the Pastoral epistles or the Epistle to the Hebrews.
- Jesus speaks of Abel as "righteous", and the Epistle to the Hebrews states that "The blood of sprinkling ...
- A tradition quickly arose that he became the first bishop of Cyprus or of Milan, or that he was the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews; according to Eusebius, he was also said to be the first bishop of Athens.
- The Epistle to the Hebrews addresses a Jewish audience who had come to believe that Jesus was the Anointed One (Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ—transliterated in English as "Moshiach", or "Messiah"; Greek: Χριστός—transliterated in English as "Christos", for "Christ") who was predicted in the writings of the Hebrew Scriptures.
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