The Eschatology of Hebrews With the other New Testament authors, the author of Hebrews (Paul?) quite clearly endorses the New Testament’s “eschatological dualism” of the “already” and the “not yet” of kingdom appearance. He declares that he and his readers were in the “last days” (ἐσχάτου τῶν ἡμερῶν τούτων, eschatou tōn hēmerōn toutōn, 1:2). Christ has come “at the end of the ages [ἐπὶ συντελείᾳ τῶν αἰώνων, epi synteleia tōn aiōnōn] to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself” (9:26),