Church, or with the sceptical crusade against the Pentateuch, which is another of our present-day “trials” in the religious sphere. And in the following pages prominence is given to these elements in the teaching of the Epistle. Hebrews is misread by those who fail to recognise that the Christian revelation is based on the divine religion of Judaism. To borrow a phrase attributed to Lord Beaconsfield, the Hebrew Christian was “a completed Jew”; and it was in this character that the Apostle Paul always
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