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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...

It has become standard for modern commentators to quote this agnostic opinion as representative of Origen’s view on the authorship of Hebrews, although in some of his writings he attributes Hebrews to Paul (First Principles 1.2.5; 3.1.10, 2.4; 4.1.24, 27; Against Celsus 3.53; 7.29). Origen even challenges those who dispute Pauline authorship of Hebrews and claims an interest in proving otherwise (Letter to Africanus 8). Despite that challenge, Eusebius reports that Origen entertained the possibility
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