Re: authorship of Hebrews

Dale M. Wheeler (dalemw@teleport.com)
Sun, 16 Feb 1997 20:24:23 -0800

Ellen Adams wrote:

>'scuse me.
>Isn't QUMIATHRION a censor, not an altar? It went into the holy of holies
>with the priest. Am I off base? Then there wouldn't exactly be an error in
9:4.
>Which, of course, proves nothing concerning the authorship.
>
>my half-cent's worth.

According to BAGD its the "altar of incense"; I can't see how "censer"
would make any sense of the Heb 9 passage ?

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