Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. TRANSCENDENT ELEMENTS IN THE CHRIST- CONCEPTION OF HEBREWS I. THE THREE PERIODS IN JESUS CAREER Preparatory to a consideration of the transcendent elements in the Christ-conception of the writer of Hebrews, it may be well to present a survey of the writer's conception of the total career of Jesus Christ. The author considers that there were two pivotal points in the total career of this person for whom his most common appellation is Jesus. The first of these is described as "sharing in flesh and blood" (an aorist tense), because his brethren whom he would save from the fear of death partook of these. It was, therefore, necessary that he be made like his brethren in all things (2:14, 17). Again this is referred to (10:50) as coming " into the world," and in the same verse it is described from the divine point of view in the words of Ps. 40:6 ff. which are interpreted messianically and therefore put in the mouth of Jesus as he is conceived to address God saying, " a body didst thou prepare for me." The author gives no hint as to how he conceived this incarnation to have taken place. It is simply stated as a pivotal point, a coming into the world, which doubtless means an entrance into this human life of men upon earth, the period spoken of as " the days of his flesh" (5:7). The second pivotal point in the career of this Jesus is one that cannot be so clearly denned, but which may best be stated as his entrance upon his exalted state, which is described as taking his seat at the right hand of God (1:13) by the command of God himself. This event in the career of Jesus is frequently mentioned in the epistle (10:12; 10:13; 10:37; 12:2). It is referred to as an entrance into the heavenly world (6:20), the real sanctuary (9:24), heaven itself, as the first is referred to ...