St. Paul wrote this Epistle to the Christians in Palestine, the most
part of whom being Jews before their conversion, they were called
Hebrews. He exhorts them to be thoroughly converted and confirmed in the
faith of Christ, clearly shewing them the preeminence of Christ's
priesthood above the Levitical, and also the excellence of the new law
above the old. He commends faith by the example of the ancient fathers:
and exhorts them to patience and perseverance and to remain in fraternal
charity. It appears from chap. 13 that this Epistle was written in
Italy, and probably at Rome, about twenty-nine years after our Lord's
Ascension.