Hey!
This is exciting! I have reverted to my old friend’s A Commentary on
The Holy Bible by various writers edited by Rev. J.R. Dummelow and
generally referred to as “Dummelow.” And I have found another reference
to Priscilla. In speaking of possible authors of the book, it states,
“The latest proposal is the brilliant suggestion of Harnack that the author was
Priscilla. If it were written by a woman it might have been thought in
that unenlightened age not wise to give her name. Priscilla was the chief
teacher of Apollos, an Alexandrian, and there is evidence of Alexandrian
influences in the contents of the Epistle. But the question cannot be
definitely determined.”
The next paragraph goes on about the Alexandrian
Influences and concludes that, “The whole spirit and atmosphere of Hebrews is
Alexandrian rather than Palestinian.”
I
am beginning to see a little how Mary Baker Eddy valued this book of
Hebrews. It seems to me it is pointing out the difference between
Christianity and Judaism, and her teachings show the sort of up-grading of
Christianity presented by Christian Science.
I
do like Dummelow! Here he has summed it all up for me. “The
Christians addressed are evidently in danger of falling away from their faith
and apostatising altogether. So desperate does their condition appear to
the author, that he feels it necessary to expostulate in the gravest
terms. It is no fascination of the world luring them away from their
original consecration that occasions this danger. The Hebrews are
discouraged to almost the extent of despair, because they do not see how the
gospel can offer them anything like compensation for what they have lost in
being cast out of the synagogue on account of their confession of the
Nazarene.”
Now
it is up to me to find this for myself in the text.
Joyce Voysey
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