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  • From: LARRY SWAIN <theswain AT sbcglobal.net>
  • To: Corpus-Paul <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Why was Hebrews ever thought to be by Paul?
  • Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:00:16 -0700 (PDT)

Brian,

Jerome is reporting information, other than the bit
about Tertullian, that he found in Origen AND
Eusebius, since Eusebius cites the passage in question
on the authorship of Hebrews.


--- Brian Sullivan <briansullivan AT optusnet.com.au>
wrote:
> 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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