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The letter to the Hebrews is a challenging document for our multi-faith age, with the book’s stress on the uniqueness of Jesus Christ in his person and work. In its call to come to Jesus “outside the camp,” it reminds us of the need for sacrifice in the Christian church. Yet it is full of the assurance of hope in Christ. In its context and in its relevance for today, Hebrews brings a special word...

speaks through law, prophets, poetry and history in the pages of the Old Testament. There is always unfinished business in those Scriptures, so that we do not move from the less true to the more true when we pass Malachi; rather, we move from promise to fulfilment. In this letter we will see that worked out supremely in the themes of temple, priesthood, sacrifice and covenant. ‘God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect’ (11:40). One of the common
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