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Hebrews is written to Jewish converts, who, because of persecutions, as well as fear and doubts about their Christian faith, are tempted to revert back to traditional Judaism and its Temple-centered worship. This epistle aims to keep these Jewish Christians in the fold by stressing the failure of the Old Covenant; that the rituals of sacrificing animals has been replaced by the superiority of the...

In this section of Hebrews, the author begins his argument for the superiority of “the Son” to the angels. Living in the light of centuries of Christian thought, it is easy to forget that for early Christians, particularly Jews, questions arose that are no longer issues for us. Among these is the question of just who “the Son” was, given that angels are also referred to in the Old Testament as “sons of God.”
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