Because CLEMENT OF ROME cites Hebrews in his Epistle to the Corinthians (AD 95), Hebrews must have been written well before that time. Timothy was still alive as the author wrote (13:23), and the impression is given that the recipients of Hebrews had heard the gospel from eyewitnesses of Jesus’s ministry (2:3). It is possible that the temple in Jerusalem was still standing when the author was writing; otherwise he would surely have used its destruction in AD 70