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Book of Hebrew Audience The book of Hebrews was written to a congregation of Christians. One author says the following: "One would expect it to go without saying that Hebrews was written to Christians: people for whom Jesus was God’s Son (1:2) and 'the Lord' (2:3) without qualification" (Ellingworth, P., 1993). Another states, "Were the recipients Christians at large, similar to the readers of 1 and 2 Peter, or were they a definite congregation or a group within a specific congregation of Christians? The latter seems the better option based on the internal evidence of the epistle" (Allen, D., L., 2010). Old Testament (OT) Priests vs. Christ In the OT, every priest would stand daily at his service which involved offering the same sacrifices repeatedly.  For example, in Leviticus, God states the following to Moses:  "If his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, he shall bring a male without blemish, and he shall kill it

Children vs. Maturity The first thing the author of Hebrews does is contrast those who are children and those who are mature. He says that though by this time these Christians ought to be teachers but they need someone to teach them the basic principles of the oracles of God again. These oracles of God are considered to be the words from Scripture in general.  They needed elementary Christian instruction (milk) and not deep spiritual nourishment (solid food) for everyone who lived on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness since he was a child. Solid food was for the mature and for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. In other words, the mature had their senses trained and had the ability to make moral decisions distinguishing good from evil. Therefore, the Christians would leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward