“…Hebrews’ protological language in relation to Christ is largely metonymic; that is, Hebrews associates Christ with the creation of the world because the telos of the world is fulfilled in Christ’s establishment of God’s rule on earth as it is in heaven.”1
Interesting to reason from a figure of speech: Christ associated with end-goal of world (telos) therefore also with its beginning.
(Sorry for the wordy, pretentious title.)
- Kenneth L. Schenck, “The Worship of Jesus among Early Christians: The Evidence of Hebrews,” in Jesus and Paul: Global Perspectives in Honor of James D. G. Dunn. A Festschrift for his 70th Birthday, Library of New Testament Studies 414, ed. Mark Goodacre (New York: T&T Clark, 2009), 118. ↩
