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The Book of Hebrews is one of encouragement, hope, and confidence. Jesus Christ is shown to be our great High Priest, the greater Moses, the fulfillment of Old Testament prophesies, the sacrifice for the world’s sins. By faith, we, like those listed in the well-known passage in chapter 11, place our hope in God. This commentary is built on the common agreement that this book is a written sermon...

The second passage comes from Nathan’s prophecy in 2 Sam 7:11b–16, the prophecy by which God instituted the enduring office of kingship in Israel. In it God promised to establish and maintain the house of David as Israel’s royal family in perpetuity. What’s more, in 1 Sam 7:12–14 he declared that David’s seed, his own offspring, would be God’s Son (cf. 1 Chr 22:9–10; 28:6). Since in Hebrew the imperfect39 may refer either to the present or the future, this declaration could function either as God’s
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