The epistle to the Hebrews is one of the richest and most significant letters in the Bible.
John Calvin expressed it well: “There is indeed, no book in Holy Scripture which speaks so clearly of the priesthood of Christ, which so highly exalts the virtue and dignity of that only true sacrifice which he offered by his death, which so abundantly deals with the use of ceremonies as well as their abrogation, and, in a word, so fully explains that Christ is the end of the Law.”
Hebrews also helps us understand the relation between the Old and the New Testaments. Here two sub-themes present themselves. One is the concept better, a term used twelve times in the epistle to help define the relation between the testaments. The other is the emphasis on faith as contrasted with sight. This theme runs throughout the epistle and is particularly evident in the classic chapter eleven.
This is Mark Hoeksema’s fourth study guide on a New Testament book.
