points, but that its Greek diction is more elegant and polished than the apostle’s. He concluded that Hebrews expresses the thought of Paul, but as written down by someone else, presumably a student of Paul’s who remembered his teachings.2 Through the influence of St. Jerome (c. 347–420) and St. Augustine (354–430), the Western Church came to accept the Eastern view, assuming some form of Pauline authorship while still classifying Hebrews separately from the other thirteen Letters of Paul.3 Thus