Abstract
A particular concentration of prophetical Christology is present in the exordium of the Epistle to the Hebrews and on the contrary, only a short parenthetic clause of soteriological Christology (“…when he had made purification for sins…”). The whole Epistle, however, avoids then the theme and the terminology of prophecy and instead brings forth a large argumentation on sin and purification from it, achieved by Jesus shedding his blood and through his obedience such as is mentioned in Psalm - LXX 40,9, so as to bring back all humanity of which he shared their flesh, suffering and death, to the obedience of God. As a consequence, it can be supposed that for the addressees of the Epistle, Jesus was only the one who reveals and not the Saviour. The same profession of faith, which denies the “coming in the flesh” and which requires the proclamation of Jesus as hilastērion for the sins, is found in the Johannine Epistles as well, and would have been largely spread in the Gnosticism of the second century. All th...
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