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Originally Posted by SemperFideles 
It seems like there's something to be said about the nature of the instruction and the care we ought to take to assume that deeper things are actually really being fleshed out in Hebrews. He actually states, ahead of time, he's not going to teach them the advanced stuff, not because he's unable to, but because the readers are like grade schoolers that wouldn't understand it yet if he did.
This just really struck me today as I was listening to a very advanced debate over what the author of Hebrews meant to express by Hebrews 8 and it seems, at least to me, that to look for extremely deep things in Hebrews misses the point that the author himself stated that his lessons were written to be understood by the theologically immature.
Thoughts?
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Man, Rich, if you ever try to exegete it in the Greek, you probably won't consider it so elementary.
Give me John's Gospel any day!
IMHO, part of the difficulty in Hebrews is the dependence upon OT allusions. Most of our biblically illiterate American Christians simply do not know their Bibles well enough to navigate those deep waters. And, when your theological argument is so frequently buttressed by OT quotes, allusions, and references, it makes it quite difficult. Remember that most Americans think that the "epistles" are the wives of the "apostles."
But, what a rich and blessed repository of precious truths!
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