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PHall | October 15, 2009
Many suggest that Paul is simply identifying himself with the readers as the author of Hebrews often does (i.e., 6:1 – “let us press on to maturity”). While that is an excellent counter argument, I would only count it weighty if the author had only said, how will we escape if we neglect so great […]
PHall | October 15, 2009
“In the first verse there may be an even more vivid picture….The two key words are prosechein and pararrein. We have taken prosechein to mean to pay attention to, which is one of its commonest meanings. Pararrein is a word of many meanings. It is used of something flowing or slipping past; it can be […]
PHall | October 15, 2009
An important demarcation between chapters one and two is that chapter one emphasizes Jesus’ superiority to the angels because He is the Son of God while chapter two emphasizes Jesus’ inferiority to the angels because He is the Son of Man. Hebrews 1 and 2 are perfect for showing the dual nature of our Lord […]
PHall | October 15, 2009
Hebrews – Our Course of Studying the Introduction Canonical – Does the book belong in the Bible? Is it inspired? Conceptual – What are some interesting viewpoints concerning Hebrews? Circumstantial – What is the background information of Hebrews? Compartmental – How is Hebrews to be divided and diagramed?
PHall | October 15, 2009
The quote is from Psalm 104:4 – He makes the winds His messengers, Flaming fire His ministers. This seems exactly the opposite of the way the Hebrew writer says it: “Who makes His angels winds, And His ministers a flame of fire.” The question is WHY is the Hebrew writer saying this about angels, that […]
PHall | October 15, 2009
An alternate translation reads, And again when he brings the first-born into the world. Is this saying the firstborn Jesus had been brought into the world more than once such as through His birth, then His resurrection, and the establishment of His Kingdom? Or could the meaning be that the first time the first-born was […]
PHall | October 15, 2009
“Although today some non-Messianic Jews, reacting against Christianity, insist that Judaism has never expected the Messiah to be different from any other man, there can be no question that in the first century many Jews, both those attracted to Yeshua and those repelled by him, understood that the Messiah would be more than human but […]
PHall | October 15, 2009
Angels in Hebrews: (NASB) 1:4; 1:5; 1:6; 1:7; 1:13; 2:2; 2:5; 2:7; 2:9; 2:16; 12:22; 13:2. As one can see from the above listing, the topic of angels dominates the first two chapters and then drops off completely until two mentions of them in the last two chapters.
PHall | October 15, 2009
. . . best rendered Jewishly as the Sh’khinah, which the Encyclopedia Judaica article on it (Volume 14, pp.1349-1351) defines as: “The Divine Presence, the numinous immanence of God in the world. . . a revelation of the holy in the midst of the profane. . . .” The article continues: “One of the more […]
PHall | October 15, 2009
The term last days is used in scripture to refer to this dispensation that started on the day of Pentecost and will end at the Second Coming (Acts 2:17; 1 Timothy 3:1; James 5:3; 1 Corinthians 10:11). At first, it might appear the Hebrew writer is using this phrase similarly, but that cannot be so. […]