latter is especially appropriate because in 13:22 the author himself speaks of his work as a “word of exhortation.” It is clear from the postscript in 13:22–25 that Hebrews is an epistle, yet it does not have the usual formulaic prescript. In fact, it begins like a sermon, reads like a sermon, but concludes like an epistle. The identical phrase “word of exhortation” occurs in Acts 13:15 where Paul and Barnabas were invited to speak in the synagogue in Pisidian Antioch. Lane rightly concluded that