composition does the author refer to the church as the ‘body of Christ’, as does the Apostle Paul. Neither does he develop very fully the concept of the ‘kingdom of God’ as that teaching is found in the ministry of Jesus and the gospellers. His perspective on the people of God is altogether different, even though wholly compatible with other images of the church in the new covenant scriptures. For the writer to the Hebrews, the church of today finds its most proper definition in terms of the historical