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I have addressed the contrafactual condition in Hebrews 8.4 already , but now I return to address other aspects of this key verse. I argued before that the condition itself tells us nothing, at least ...

... is an exercise in distinguishing what an author has inherited from other sources and what an author may have created or innovated on his or her ... on a literal altar, that all such sacrificial language in the epistle to the Hebrews, when it is applied to Jesus, is the result of the author ...

I have touched upon Hebrews 8.3 already in connection with my discussion of Hebrews 8.4 . However, in this post I intend to use the verse as a springboard for discussing the most commonly used sacrificial term used in the epistle to ...

... undefiled, having been separated from sinners and become higher than the heavens, who does not have need day by day, just as the high priests, to offer up sacrifices [ θυσίας ἀναφέρειν ], first on behalf of his own sins, then on behalf ...

Hebrews 1.6 (whenever again): http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1622 . Hebrews 5.5-6 (when Jesus becomes priest): http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1625 . Hebrews 5.7-8 (salvation out of death): http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1583 . H...

I have chosen two distinct passages from the Pentateuch in order to illuminate some of the vocabulary used in the LXX for sacrifices. Trigger warning : In this post I ...

One thing is certain, that the earliest New Testament of the Syriac church lacked not only the Antilegomena* – ... of the Catholic Epistles . These were at a later date translated and received into the Syriac Canon of the New Testament, but the quotations of the early Syrian Fathers ...

Hebrews 5.5-6 speaks of the office of priesthood as follows: And no one takes the honor [ τὴν τιμήν ] to himself, but rather (upon) being called by God, just as Aaron also was. So also Christ did not glorify ...

http://www.soundingthetrumpet.com/tab.gif Well if Jesus's sacrifice is paralleling those of the temple cult, he would be killed at the altar, as shown to the right in the diagram. This would still be within the gates of the temple itself, and if the ...

I just discovered that David Moffitt also connects the theology of Hebrews 1–2 with the worship of Adam in Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews (Brill 2011). While Hebrews ...