a New Testament writer meant simply ‘the Bible’. For a start, not all of it was even around then; we don’t know when this letter was originally written, and it’s quite likely that other New Testament books came later. We have no reason to suppose that the author of Hebrews even knew about the other books that were already written; and, though the writers of the New Testament clearly intended their work to be seen as authoritative for the church, and in that sense ‘scripture’, there is no evidence