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Scarcely any book of the New Testament (with the possible exception of Revelation) is so perplexing as the Letter to the Hebrews. Not really a letter, but a sermon with some features of a letter added to it, not really by its putative author, Paul, but by an anonymous Christian who wrote some of the most elegant Greek in the Bible, not really addressed to the Hebrews, but to Christians, probably...

That God could deliver a person from death was commonplace in the Hebrew Bible (Josh 2:13; Job 5:20; Pss 33:17; 53:1–3; 68:20; 116:8; Hos 13:13; Acts 2:24) and Hellenistic Judaism (Add Esth 4:8; Sir 48:5; 51:9). and he was heard because of his reverent submission: The author is confident that Jesus’ prayer was heard, yet this part of the verse has caused serious problems of interpretation. If Jesus prayed to be saved from death and his prayer was heard, why did he die? Some have argued that Jesus’
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