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Jesus’ final cry on the cross—“it is finished”—captures the theology of Hebrews. Thomas R. Schreiner clarifies Hebrews’s complex argument by keeping a sustained focus on its logical flow. He interprets Hebrews in light of its prominent structures of promise and fulfillment, eschatology, typology, and the relationship between heaven and earth. Schreiner probes the letter’s unique theological...

seems slightly more likely.14 In either case God’s glory is revealed in the Son, and it really doesn’t matter much which we choose, for as Johnson says, “Reflection becomes radiance, and radiance is what is reflected.”15 The Son is also “the exact impression of his nature.” The word translated “exact impression” (χαρακτήρ) is used of the impression or mark made by coins.16 Here it denotes the idea that the Son represents the nature (ὑπόστασις) and character of the one true God.17 He reveals who God
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