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6. Hebrews and Barnabas. The Epistle to the Hebrews throws little light on the relation between the State and the Church, nor does this subject throw much light on that enigmatic work. The persons addressed have been exposed to taunts and afflic- tions (x. 33), and have endured a great conflict Yet the general tone, perhaps, implies that worse and more serious trials have been experienced by Christians elsewhere, and that the persons addressed may expect a more terrible trial in the immediate f...uture. The whole spirit of the advice given them seems to be directed to prepare them for serious persecution, and therefore the writer must already be familiar with persecution of that type. By the language of xii. 4 this impression is confirmed. The persons addressed were up to the present not sufferers XIIL Authorities for the Flavian Period. 307 of persecution that had been carried as far as death.* But the example of the heroes and heroines of old, who by faith were enabled \q resist death and extreme torments, is urged upon them at such length, and with such earnestness, as to show that the writer considers them to be threatened by a similar fate.
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