Daniel Haas

Tag: Hebrews

  • Hebrews 7:1-28

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    Today’s Reading is Hebrews 7:1-28. It is yet another reflection on Jesus’ priesthood, the essential theme of Hebrews.

  • Hebrews 6:1-20

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    Today’s Reading is Hebrews 6:1-20. It raises a great question: “For how can those who abandon their faith be brought back to repent again?” And it gives a great answer, too: “So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us. We have this hope…

  • Hebrews 4:14-5:14

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    Today’s Reading is Hebrews 4:14-5:14. Here Jesus is described as being in the priestly order of Melchizedek. That is a thing the Bible has hardly anything about: Genesis 14:17-19 knows: “When Abram came back from his victory over Chedorlaomer and the other kings, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in Shaveh Valley…

  • Habakkuk 2:1-20

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    Today’s Reading is Habakkuk 2:1-20. The second half of Habakkuk 2:4 is quoted by some of the earliest Christian writers. Although this passage is only three words in the original Hebrew (וְצַדִּ֖יק בֶּאֱמוּנָת֥וֹ יִחְיֶֽה׃) Paul the Apostle quotes this verse twice in his epistles, in Romans 1:17 and again in Galatians 3:11. In doing so,…