hero common in the ancient Greek world. For example, Hercules was called “champion” (archegos) and “savior” (soter). If this is the author’s intention, it is comparable to a modern preacher saying Jesus is “the real superman,” as crass as that might sound. It was simply a way of expressing a meaningful analogy that Jesus has come to our rescue. In what sense has he been made “perfect” through his suffering of death? As in 5:9, the author does not mean that Christ had been “imperfect,” in the sense