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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...

theological evidence.14 The most likely candidates for author are, in order of increasing probability, Barnabas, Apollos, St. Paul, Clement of Rome, and Luke. The case for Barnabas rests on his status as a Levite (Acts 4:36), his status as a teacher and prophet (Acts 11:25–26; 13:1), his reputation as a man with the gift of encouragement (Acts 4:36; 11:22–23), and the misidentification of him as the author of the Epistle of Barnabas. The case for Apollos depends on the biographical sketch in Acts
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