and Jewett disagree). Hebrews does not, like Paul, distinguish various levels in the angelic hierarchy. A clue to the place of angels in the structure of the argument is provided in → Heb. 2:2, which, like Acts 7:53 and Gal. 3:19, refers to the tradition that angels acted as mediators when the Law was given to Moses. Now whereas for Paul the Mosaic Law was primarily a moral code, the writer of Hebrews sees it primarily as laying down the conditions within which the old covenant was administered,
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