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excuse for disobedience but an urgent call for vigilant resistance (p. 187). Or, Perseverance in faithful living is
dependent on an adequate grasp of Christ and his sufficiency (p. 476).
By way of a couple of criticisms, it is not clear to me why he rejects seeing the unfaithful wilderness generation of
Israel as also lying behind the warning of Heb. 6:4-8. I am also not convinced that there is no typological relationship
between the Old Covenant and New Covenant people of God, without denying the continuity that Cockerill wishes to
maintain. Furthermore, many will want to take issue with his contention in 9:16-17 that the Greek word diatheke
should be translated covenant and not be seen as a play on words to be translated will. Finally, Cockerills
grammatical comments are often outdated, especially regarding Greek verb tenses, and do not take into consideration
recent research on the Greek tense system. In a couple of places his mistreatment of tenses leads him astray.
But this should not detract from the invaluable service that Cockerill has performed in writing this immense
commentary. We are indebted to Cockerills mature thinking and extensive interaction with the text of Hebrews in
providing an exegetically insightful and theologically sensitive reading of Hebrews. This will easily take its place
alongside of the other standard commentaries by Attridge, Lane, Ellingworth, Koester, deSilva, and OBrien. Anyone
planning to study, teach, or preach through Hebrews should have this commentary at their side.
David L. Mathewson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of New Testament
Denver Seminary
January 2013
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