Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a PhD in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We'll go ahead and get started. And when we get started,

in just a moment, we'll be picking up at the beginning of St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews

Chapter 5. So St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, as we talked about, is not an epistle in the same

sense as his other epistles that we've read in the sense as his other epistles that we've read.

In the sense that the other epistles that we've read have been letters either to a church or to a person.

We talked about how St. Paul's epistle to the Hebrews is more like a sermon or a homily or a piece of like biblical commentary we'd call it today on psalm

110 or 109 in the Greek numbering that was then sent right sent as letter. And so we saw that at the beginning of St. Paul's

epistle to the Hebrews, you don't find the usual things you find in his epistles, but the end of it

looks more like the end of one of his epistles, because it was sent to certain addresses.

And so we've been sort of tracking through,

as he's been working through,

especially so far,

he started to segue into what we're going to get into tonight,

which is going to move us a little further in that psalm.

So he's been mainly focusing on the first part of it,

which verse verse that psalm is,

the Lord said to my Lord or Yahweh said to my Lord,

sit at my right hand until I make your enemies uh your footstool

and we talked about how that had already by the time of christ been given sort of a messianic

interpretation right so that christ himself could say to the Pharisees,

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