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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...

and the claim that they had not yet been called to shed their blood for their faith in Christ in 12:4 fits the period between the edict of Claudius in AD 49 and the persecution by Nero in AD 64–67. Third, the sermon maintains that the earthly shrine and service of the old covenant had not yet been abolished (8:13) and that priests still served at the temple altar in Jerusalem (13:10; see also the fifth textual note on 7:20; also, “while the first tent is still standing” is “a parabolic illustration
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