“they can never take away sins:” “they can never make the comers thereunto perfect:” “they are mere ordinances of the flesh, imposed until the time of reformation.”
(ce) The view of the condition in which the subject of the law’s dominion is placed. 'To Paul it is a condition of bond- age, because the law is a body of demands which man must fulfil (Rom. vii.). To our writer it is a condition of unsat- isfied longing for forgiveness and fellowship, because of the insufficiency of the ritual atonement. Accordingly, Hebrews points to the satisfaction of this longing in Christ, the great high priest, perfecting by one offering those who are being sanctified, purging the conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Paul points to the fact that Christ has put an end to the tyranny of the law, and has substituted freedom for bondage. The conception of freedom does not appear in Hebrews. Neither €devGepos, édevOepia, nor édevGepodv occur in the epistle.
(d) The doctrine of the resurrection of Christ. ‘This emerges everywhere in Paul’s epistles. There is but one allusion to it in Hebrews (xiii. 20), although it is implied in the doctrine of Christ’s high-priesthood, he being a priest “according to the power of an indissoluble life” (vii. 16).
(e) The Gentiles. There is no mention of the Gentiles in relation to the new covenant, a topic which constantly recurs in Paul.
(f) Sin. Sin is not treated with reference to its origin as by Paul. The vocabulary of terms for sin is smaller than in the Pauline writings.
(g) Repentance. The denial of the possibility of repentance after a lapse (vi. 4-6, comp. x. 26-29) is not Pauline.
(83) THE Use or Divine TITLES. — Kvpsos lord, very common in Paul, is comparatively rare in Hebrews. Simi- larly, Incots Xpiords Jesus Christ, which occurs thirty times in Romans alone. Xptores Inoots, which is characteristically Pauline, does not appear at all, neither does cwr7p saviour, which is found in Ephesians and Philippians.
(4) THE GENERAL SCHEME OF TREATMENT. — This is broader than that of Paul, viewing man not only in his