Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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[DATE AND PLACE OF WRITING UNCERTAIN.]
The Traditions concerning the authorship of this Letter
are unreliable. From the Letter itself it may be safely
inferred that the writer was a man of intellectual power, that
he was familiar with the modes of thought prevalent in
Alexandria, that his home and work lay among Jewish
Christians, and that he was in some way connected with
those teachers who looked to St. Paul as their leader. It is
certain that the Apostle Paul was not the author. The Letter
has been attributed with some show of probability to several
writers, in particular to Barnabas (Acts 11. 22—24; 13. 1—5)
and to Apollos (Acts 18. 24—28).
The Jewish Christians to whom the Letter is addressed were
a community living, possibly, in Palestine, but more probably
in Alexandria or in Rome; and the primary object of the
Letter was to explain, to those who were well acquainted with
the ritual of the old Covenant, the fulfilment of its types in
the heavenly realities of the Christian Faith.
From certain passages in the Letter it has been inferred
that, at the time when it was written, the worship of the
Temple had not been entirely swept away, as it was by the
fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
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TO HEBREWS.
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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