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  • From: "Brian Sullivan" <briansullivan AT optusnet.com.au>
  • To: <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Corpus-Paul] Why was Hebrews ever thought to be by Paul?
  • Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 01:26:42 +1000

Dear Dave,

Later Church tradition supporting the Pauline authorship of Hebrews is found
by Eusebius but rejected by Jerome.

Eusebius, Eccless History 6:14:2 also Eccless History 3:38:2-3

"In the work called Hypotyposes, to sum up the matter briefly he [Clement of
Alexandria] has given us the abridged accounts of all the canonical
scriptures . the Epistle to the Hebrews he asserts was written by Paul, to
the Hebrews, in the Hebrew tongue; but that it was carefully translated by
Luke, and published among the Greeks."

Jerome De viris inlustribus (Concerning Illustrius Men) B V.

"The epistle which is called the Epistle to the Hebrews is not considered
his, on account of its difference from the others in style and language, but
it is reckoned, either according to Tertullian to be the work of Barnabas,
or according to others, to be by Luke the Evangelist or Clement afterwards
bishop of the Church at Rome, who, they say, arranged and adorned the ideas
of Paul in his own language, though to be sure, since Paul was writing to
Hebrews and was in disrepute among them he may have omitted his name from
the salvation on this account. He being a Hebrew wrote Hebrew, that is his
own tongue and most fluently while the things which were eloquently written
in Hebrew were more eloquently turned into Greek, and this is the reason why
it seems to differ from other epistles of Paul. Some read one also to the
Laodiceans but it is rejected by everyone."

Brian Sullivan








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