ABSTRACT
The author of the epistle presumes that the reader knows and accepts the elements of Christian teaching. Like Paul the author of the epistle to the Hebrews is a universalist without any reserve, but he wrote at a time when the position of universalism was so strong that it did not need to be justified and defended. The author of the epistle to the Hebrews interprets the death of Christ in terms of ritual not like Paul in those of jurisprudence. The thought of the epistle to the Hebrews is very different from Paul’s because it borrows from Judaism all the material for its interpretation of Christ’s death and so in certain respects is much closer to Judaism. Thus, in the epistle to the Romans Paul says that God has made Christ to be a propitiation by his blood for the forgiveness of sins.
