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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...

The application of Psalm 8 to Jesus in 2:5–9 performed an important function in showing that God’s plan for humans was not frustrated, but was brought to fulfillment in the Son’s death. As the author proclaimed at 2:9, in death Jesus was “crowned with glory and honor.” According to the psalm, humans were already the crowning achievement of God in creation. Were that the end of the story, enough would be said. There was need, however, for a new human to be “crowned with glory and honor” because the
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