Hello, I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson, part of the Scripture Central team to talk today about the book of Hebrews.

It's my favorite epistle in the second half of the New Testament. I love this book because it talks

about the temple. The whole book of Hebrews is generally speaking the promise of the temple and the price

of the temple. Now, we'll divide it into many different

sorts and look at it in different ways, but this book is very unique amongst the epistles. It's not

the same as the others. Chronologically, you can see on my chart here that Paul probably wrote it

when he was in prison in Caesarea. After his third mission, before he is in

prison in Rome, he spends two years in Caesarea. But we aren't positive. People often debate

the authorship of this book. But Eusebius, our church historian, who's writing from 260 AD to 339

AD, Eusebius said that the epistle of the Hebrews was written for Hebrews,

meaning for Jews, Jewish converts, in their own language, translated by Luke and published for Greek readers.

Hence, in the Greek version of this epistle, we find the same stylistic color as an axe.

Because remember, Luke wrote Acts, and then he's Paul's companion, and he supposedly translated this from Hebrew into Greek.

Now, it says his own tongue.

Most Jews were not speaking Hebrew at this time, but because Paul was a scholar, he probably knew it.

Most Jews were speaking Aramaic,

the language of the Babylonians that they still have as their mother tongue. Here's another interesting

statement on the book of Hebrews by my favorite Catholic scholar Raymond Brown in his introduction

to the New Testament. By all standards, this is one of the most impressive works in the New

Testament. It is written in

quality Greek and passionately appreciative of Christ. Christ is the center of this. Jesus as the Messiah,

and the whole book takes all these things about the Judaic traditions and the law of Moses

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