Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church,

but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So we'll go ahead and get started. When we get started, just a moment, we'll be picking up at... Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So we'll go ahead and get started.

When we get started, just a moment, we'll be picking up at the beginning of Chapter 2 of St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews.

And we've been, well, we went through Chapter 1.

And we had, previous to that, we had the long introduction, which by the time people are hearing this recording, they'll be able to go back and listen to that recording.

But for today, we saw, the main things we saw as we went through chapter one was first and foremost, we kind of emphasized.

You saw sort of the technique that's being used here in St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, that it doesn't sort of follow the same format as St. Paul's epistles.

This is why, of course, so many people, beginning with the church fathers, have questioned

whether St. Paul himself wrote it, at least wrote it in the same sense.

But we also talked about how the argument is made, including by me, that there's a genre difference here, that this isn't really an epistle, in the sense of this being first and foremost a letter.

This is actually more like a homily or a sermon that's been sent somewhere.

So it's been sent somewhere, right?

So it's been sent the way a letter would be sent,

but that it's actually in its genre and its shape and its structure,

it's more like a sermon or a homily,

specifically a sermon or a homily on Psalm 110 or 109 in the Greek numbering if if you're looking at it in the Orthodox study Bible

or somewhere else that follows the Greek numbering.

And so the emphasis in the first chapter in terms of the content, we saw sort of that format

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