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Remember them as though you were suffering with them. And every marriage should be kept pure between husband and wife. God will judge guilty those who commit sexual sins and adultery. And be satisfied with what you have. I will never run away from you.
I will not be afraid. People can do nothing to me. Remember how they lived and died, and copy their faith. And those priests who serve in the Holy Tent cannot eat from the sacrifice we have. It sets before the Jew the claims of Christianity — to bring the Jew to the full realization of the relation of Judaism to Christianity, to make clear that Christ has fulfilled those temporary and provisional institutions, and has thus abolished them.
Those to whom Hebrews is written seem to have begun to doubt whether Jesus could really be the Messiah for whom they were waiting, because they believed the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Scriptures was to come as a militant king and destroy the enemies of his people. Jesus, however, came as a mere man who was arrested by the Jewish leaders and who suffered and was crucified by the Romans. And although he was seen resurrected , he still left the earth and his people, who now face persecution rather than victory.
The Book of Hebrews solves this problem by arguing that the Hebrew Scriptures also foretold that the Messiah would be a priest although of a different sort than the traditional Levitical priests and Jesus came to fulfill this role, as a sacrificial offering to God, to atone for sins. His role of a king is yet to come , and so those who follow him should be patient and not be surprised that they suffer for now.
Some scholars today believe the document was written to prevent apostasy. Some have seen apostasy as a move from the Christian assembly to pagan ritual. In light of a possibly Jewish-Christian audience, the apostasy in this sense may be in regard to Jewish-Christians leaving the Christian assembly to return to the Jewish synagogue. The author writes, "Let us hold fast to our confession". The book could be argued to affirm special creation. Hebrews is a very consciously "literary" document.
This letter consists of two strands: Hebrews does not fit the form of a traditional Hellenistic epistle , lacking a proper prescript. Modern scholars generally believe this book was originally a sermon or homily , although possibly modified after it was delivered to include the travel plans, greetings and closing.
Hebrews contains many references to the Old Testament — specifically to its Septuagint text. The Epistle to the Hebrews is notable for the manner in which it expresses the divine nature of Christ. Purdy summarized for The Interpreter's Bible Positively, our author presents Christ as divine in nature, and solves any possible objection to a divine being who participates in human experience, especially in the experience of death, by the priestly analogy.
He seems quite unconscious of the logical difficulties of his position proceeding from the that Christ is both divine and human, at least human in experience although hardly in nature. The first chapter of Hebrews stresses the superiority of the Son to the angels. This exaltation theme, in which the Son is contrasted with the angels 1: The overall structure of the catena seems to point to exaltation as the underlying motif The first passage to be considered is Hebrews 3: While the comparison between Jesus and the angels is based on a number of OT citations, the comparison of Jesus and Moses turns on a single verse, Nu.
Like the angels 1: The Son is once again exalted. The exaltation theme finds expression in a more opaque way at The portrait of Moses drawn here is that of a martyr, and a Christian martyr at that. In effect, Moses joins that great cloud of witnesses who looked to Jesus as pioneer and perfecter of faith.
In summary, the writer [of Hebrews] stressed the Sonship of Jesus and expressed it in a three-stage Christology of pre-existence, humanity, and exaltation. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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