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APPENDIX. 611
Heb. ii. 9, comp. Phil. ii. 9, seq.) into heaven (Heb. iv. 14, vii. 26,
and Eph. iv. 10), besides, the remarkable and quite special idea that
God the Father alone is excepted in the subjection of all things to
Christ (Heb.ii. 8, 9; 1 Cor. xv. 27); that the exalted Christ intercedes
with the Father for his own (Heb. vii. 25; Rom. viii. 34);
that
he has destroyed death and its power (Heb. ii. 14; 1 Cor. xv. 54,
seq.: 2 Tim. i. 10); again the remarkaUy special combination of ideas,
that Christ, having died once, cannot die again (Heb. ix. 26, seq.,
x. 12; Eom. vi. 9, seq.); farther, that Christ died for every creature
(Heb. ii. 9; Eph. i. 10; Rom. viii. 22); that when he comes again,
he will come not as a Saviour but as a Judge (Heb. ix. 27, seq.;
Tit. ii. 13; 2 Tim. iv. 1 and 8; Rom. viii. 24, xiii. 11); that, till
then, he rules and reigns at the right hand of God (Heb. i. 3, x. 12,
13; 1 Cor. xv. 25).—In like manner that the law cannot save, and is
destined to be abrogated (with Heb. iv. 2, vii. 16-19, ix 9-13,
viii. 7, X. 14, xiii. 20, comp. Rom. ii. 29; 2 Cor. iii. 6, seq.; Gal.
iii. 3, iv. 3 and 9). The designation of the law as a shadow (Heb.
viii. 5, X. 1; Col. ii. 17). The putting together of tke tXnl^ with
the TTtarif and with the dydixT) (Heb. vi. 10, seq., x. 22, seq.; comp.
1 Thess. V. 8; and 1 Cor. xiii. 13). The request to be interceded for
(Heb. xiii. 18, seq.; Phil. i. 25, ii. 24; Philem. 22), and the antithesis
between riXecog and vijmo^ (Heb. v. 13, 14; 1 Cor. iii. 1,
xiii. 11; Rom. ii. 20; Eph. iv. 14).
Especially remarkable, however, is the agreement of the Epistle
10 the Hebrews with Paul in the reference to the second psalm
(Heb. i. 5, seq.; comp. Acts xiii. 33, seq.), and in the inference,
drawn from Abraham's readiness to offer up Isaac, that Abraham
believed in the possibiHty of a resurrection of Isaac.
This Pauline complexion of the doctrinal system does not, indeed,
necessitate our coming to the conclusion that Paul was the author
of the Epistle, but still leaves room for the possibilty of another
author; this other, however, must at all events be sought for among
the disciples and helpers of the Apostle Paul ; our epistle must
have emanated from this circle; only thus can the recurrence of
Pauline ideas and combinations of ideas—even in the minutest
particulars—be accounted for.
C)WOKDS AND PHRASES.
Many dogmatical expressions peculiarly Pauline are also found in
our epistle. The doctrine that Christ intercedes for us with the
Father (Heb. vii. 25; Rom. viii. 34), is expressed by the same word
tvTvyxdvetVj that of his having destroyed death by the same verb
Karapyelv (Heb. ii. 14; 2 Tim. i. 10.) Further, the phrase o debg ^wv
(Heb. X. 31), used elsewhere only by Paul, the expression ^'iKMoq