Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture: Hebrews
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
In this addition to the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, respected New Testament scholar Mary Healy unpacks the Letter to the Hebrews, making its difficult and puzzling passages accessible to pastoral ministers, lay readers, and students. Her commentary shows how Hebrews reveals the meaning of Christ’s death in light of the Old Testament figures, rites, and sacrifices that foreshadowed it. Healy explains that Hebrews, when fully understood, transforms our understanding of who God is, what he has done for us, and how we are to live as Christians today.
Top Highlights
“The sacrifices are meant to be a visible sign of what God truly desires: the people’s covenant fidelity. When that is lacking, they are mere hypocrisy, an insult to God.” (Page 197)
“The Son of God can fully identify with us. He comes to us in times of trial as one who understands our human experience from the inside.” (Page 68)
“For Hebrews, the old covenant types point both forward in time to Christ and upward to transcendent divine realities” (Page 28)
“Second, the vocabulary and style are markedly different from Paul’s.” (Page 17)
“Hebrews is clearly a composition intended for oral delivery” (Page 23)