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OT quotations and allusions in Hebrews 1

1 Heb. 1:5 Ps. 2:7

2 Heb. 1:5 2 Sam.7:14

3 Heb. 1:6 Deut. 32:43; Ps. 97:7

4 Heb. 1:7 Ps.104:4

5 Heb. 1:8 Ps. 45:6-7

6 Heb. 1:9 Is. 61:1, 3

7 Heb. 1:10 Ps. 102:25-27

8 Heb. 1:11 Is. 34:4

9 Heb. 1:13 Ps. 110:1

Who wrote the Book of Hebrews?

• Apollos (Luther)• Barnabas (Tertullian)• Peter, Luke, Priscilla and Mary• “Only God knows who wrote the Book of Hebrews” (Origen)

• Paul (Internal evidence)

Col. 1 ~ 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 

Image ~ charaktērPerson ~ hupostasis (substance)• Hypostatic Union

Better ~ kreittōn – 13 of the 19 NT usages is in Hebrews

Firstborn ~ prototokos• Protos ~ first in time or place; first in rank (chief)• Titkō ~ to bring forth• 9 xs in NT (once about 10th plague)• Uniqueness

NWT ~ “God is your throne…”

Frederick Buechner: For what we need to know, of course, is not just that God exists, not just that beyond the steely brightness of the stars there is a cosmic intelligence of some kind that keeps the whole show going, but that there is a God right here in the thick of our day-by-day lives who may not be writing messages about Himself in the stars but in one way or another is trying to get messages through our blindness as we move around down here knee-deep in the fragrant muck and misery and marvel of the world. It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.