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The book of Hebrews. Several facts about the book of Hebrews...
1- We don't really know who wrote it, for sure. It reads with the perfect legal flow of the kind of fellow that would have studied under Gamaliel. But... Peter spent a lot of time around Paul and was very specifically commissioned to preach to the Hebrews.
2- It is one of the most complicated books to actually understand because it draws from every complex legal, typification, prophetic and covenant concept found from Genesis to the very book of Hebrews.
3- It is the most authoritative Revelation of our very mechanism of Salvation in Jesus Christ.
4- Authoritative Jews were predecessors of what would be called Attorneys. The Pentateuch is literally a book that defines the just application of Law, through complex historical revelations that contain conflict and resolution imagery. This leads up to literal passages of written Laws. Hebrews cannot be understood without this mindset being brought into it.
Hebrews is broken up into 13 chapters (Functional Table of Contents)
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Chapter 1 tends to be Headed as (God’s Final Word: His Son, The Son Superior to Angels)
Verses 1-3 (Introduction, Tri-Unity of God and Divine Theological Models, Supremacy of the SON)
Hebrews 1:3 (The Tri-Unity and Messiah, a Deep Scriptural Dive)
Chapter 2 tends to be Headed as (Warning to Pay Attention, Jesus Made Fully Human)
Chapter 3 tends to be Headed as (Jesus Greater Than Moses, Warning Against Unbelief)
Chapter 4 tends to be Headed as (A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God, Jesus the Great High Priest)
Chapter 5 tends to be Headed as (Warning Against Falling Away)
Chapter 6 tends to be Headed as (The Certainty of God’s Promise)
Chapter 7 tends to be Headed as (Melchizedek the Priest, Jesus Like Melchizedek)
Chapter 8 tends to be Headed as (The High Priest of a New Covenant)
Chapter 9 tends to be Headed as (Worship in the Earthly Tabernacle, The Blood of Christ)
Chapter 10 tends to be Headed as (Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All, A Call to Persevere in Faith)
Chapter 11 tends to be Headed as (Faith in Action)
Chapter 12 tends to be Headed as (Warning and Encouragement, The Mountain of Fear and the Mountain of Joy)
Chapter 13 tends to be Headed as (Concluding Exhortations, Benediction and Final Greetings)
Things to mentally prepare for while going into a study like Hebrews...
1- Headings are not scripture. They are scholarly ideas of what it is believed that scripture is saying. They tend to be correct. There are some instances where they don't quite line up. However, they do help assist with the flow of passages.
2- Books as complex as Hebrews are best approached by exploiting the combination of a Literal Translation and a Paraphrase.
There are multiple aspects of scripture that have to be considered when translating it from Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew.
1- Idioms, Parables, Poetry, Historical knowledge and Literary flow
Many times, time has washed away the understanding of "phrases wordsmithed" to colloquialisms. Updating these passages to suitably modern equivalents can assist in following literary intent (storyline wise). However, because there are even deeper inferences within singular words, as written in the original language, this paraphrasing can bury deeper intended understanding.
Example: Hebrew word sane: (Saw-nay). It has a pictographic understanding that the ancient Hebrews who employed it in scripture understood.
This word combines the image of a thorn bush with Grab, Reject, Protect. There is no actual Hebrew word for what we understand to be "Hate", per Greco-Roman inference. The word Sane in Hebrew denotes thorn vines and thorn bushes grown around shepherd folds that discouraged the livestock from wandering and predators from getting in. Grabbing or kicking against those thorns was an idiom that related to fighting against an "Authority" so ardently that it causes personal harm to the one fighting. In the Old testament, the phrase "Jacob have I loved, Esau have I "Saned"... which get's lingually translated to "Hate" in English is a very solid example of the importance of deeper study. There are two things going on at once in this tiny passage. Jacob is indicative of ISRAEL, while Esau is indicative of Edom. This passage of old testament scripture can be misinterpreted to believe that God "HATES" His enemies, which presents a very real, New Testament issue. However, by understanding that the passage is about entire nations, versus individual people and that Sane actually implies Love that is so determined to "break through" to a person so stringently that it contends against personal Authority to the point that it recoils (withdraws) in emotional (Grieved) pain as if kicking against a fence of thorns, we can now surmise that the passage is to be understood as; "Israel have I Loved and been embraced by while Edom has Hurt me to the point of My withdraw".
This is one tiny passage, that displays the complexity of idioms and lingual intent. This occurs all throughout scripture! This is exactly how legal evaluation of documentation must occur. Legal specialists will often spend days and complex 200 page generating studies on ONE SINGLE WORD to ensure that the final implied document is correctly written and incapable of being misinterpreted.
2- Prophetic complexities that bind to MANY other full stories within scripture, which are phrased slightly differently, due to differing human authors writing styles. These "Prophetic" complexities can be searched out through obvious similarities that bind to lingual poetic assembly and repeated verbal intention, within a passage. I have two examples of this occurring that I have expounded on in my previous posting.
Example 1: What to look for; Poetic Rhythm that repeats. In the Image, Be fruitful and multiply, Rule and have dominion over created things
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Example 2: What to look for. The Old Testament Verse is the exact predecessor of the New Testament Verse and was being reconstructed with New Testament Revelation.
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1- We don't really know who wrote it, for sure. It reads with the perfect legal flow of the kind of fellow that would have studied under Gamaliel. But... Peter spent a lot of time around Paul and was very specifically commissioned to preach to the Hebrews.
2- It is one of the most complicated books to actually understand because it draws from every complex legal, typification, prophetic and covenant concept found from Genesis to the very book of Hebrews.
3- It is the most authoritative Revelation of our very mechanism of Salvation in Jesus Christ.
4- Authoritative Jews were predecessors of what would be called Attorneys. The Pentateuch is literally a book that defines the just application of Law, through complex historical revelations that contain conflict and resolution imagery. This leads up to literal passages of written Laws. Hebrews cannot be understood without this mindset being brought into it.
Hebrews is broken up into 13 chapters (Functional Table of Contents)
Whiteboard
Chapter 1 tends to be Headed as (God’s Final Word: His Son, The Son Superior to Angels)
Verses 1-3 (Introduction, Tri-Unity of God and Divine Theological Models, Supremacy of the SON)
Hebrews 1:3 (The Tri-Unity and Messiah, a Deep Scriptural Dive)
Chapter 2 tends to be Headed as (Warning to Pay Attention, Jesus Made Fully Human)
Chapter 3 tends to be Headed as (Jesus Greater Than Moses, Warning Against Unbelief)
Chapter 4 tends to be Headed as (A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God, Jesus the Great High Priest)
Chapter 5 tends to be Headed as (Warning Against Falling Away)
Chapter 6 tends to be Headed as (The Certainty of God’s Promise)
Chapter 7 tends to be Headed as (Melchizedek the Priest, Jesus Like Melchizedek)
Chapter 8 tends to be Headed as (The High Priest of a New Covenant)
Chapter 9 tends to be Headed as (Worship in the Earthly Tabernacle, The Blood of Christ)
Chapter 10 tends to be Headed as (Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All, A Call to Persevere in Faith)
Chapter 11 tends to be Headed as (Faith in Action)
Chapter 12 tends to be Headed as (Warning and Encouragement, The Mountain of Fear and the Mountain of Joy)
Chapter 13 tends to be Headed as (Concluding Exhortations, Benediction and Final Greetings)
Things to mentally prepare for while going into a study like Hebrews...
1- Headings are not scripture. They are scholarly ideas of what it is believed that scripture is saying. They tend to be correct. There are some instances where they don't quite line up. However, they do help assist with the flow of passages.
2- Books as complex as Hebrews are best approached by exploiting the combination of a Literal Translation and a Paraphrase.
There are multiple aspects of scripture that have to be considered when translating it from Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew.
1- Idioms, Parables, Poetry, Historical knowledge and Literary flow
Many times, time has washed away the understanding of "phrases wordsmithed" to colloquialisms. Updating these passages to suitably modern equivalents can assist in following literary intent (storyline wise). However, because there are even deeper inferences within singular words, as written in the original language, this paraphrasing can bury deeper intended understanding.
Example: Hebrew word sane: (Saw-nay). It has a pictographic understanding that the ancient Hebrews who employed it in scripture understood.
This word combines the image of a thorn bush with Grab, Reject, Protect. There is no actual Hebrew word for what we understand to be "Hate", per Greco-Roman inference. The word Sane in Hebrew denotes thorn vines and thorn bushes grown around shepherd folds that discouraged the livestock from wandering and predators from getting in. Grabbing or kicking against those thorns was an idiom that related to fighting against an "Authority" so ardently that it causes personal harm to the one fighting. In the Old testament, the phrase "Jacob have I loved, Esau have I "Saned"... which get's lingually translated to "Hate" in English is a very solid example of the importance of deeper study. There are two things going on at once in this tiny passage. Jacob is indicative of ISRAEL, while Esau is indicative of Edom. This passage of old testament scripture can be misinterpreted to believe that God "HATES" His enemies, which presents a very real, New Testament issue. However, by understanding that the passage is about entire nations, versus individual people and that Sane actually implies Love that is so determined to "break through" to a person so stringently that it contends against personal Authority to the point that it recoils (withdraws) in emotional (Grieved) pain as if kicking against a fence of thorns, we can now surmise that the passage is to be understood as; "Israel have I Loved and been embraced by while Edom has Hurt me to the point of My withdraw".
This is one tiny passage, that displays the complexity of idioms and lingual intent. This occurs all throughout scripture! This is exactly how legal evaluation of documentation must occur. Legal specialists will often spend days and complex 200 page generating studies on ONE SINGLE WORD to ensure that the final implied document is correctly written and incapable of being misinterpreted.
2- Prophetic complexities that bind to MANY other full stories within scripture, which are phrased slightly differently, due to differing human authors writing styles. These "Prophetic" complexities can be searched out through obvious similarities that bind to lingual poetic assembly and repeated verbal intention, within a passage. I have two examples of this occurring that I have expounded on in my previous posting.
Example 1: What to look for; Poetic Rhythm that repeats. In the Image, Be fruitful and multiply, Rule and have dominion over created things
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Example 2: What to look for. The Old Testament Verse is the exact predecessor of the New Testament Verse and was being reconstructed with New Testament Revelation.
Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel? |
2 Peter 3:9The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance. |
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