The God of Peace

PART 2 PRAYERS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
OTHER EARLY CHRISTIAN PRAYERS
THE GOD OF PEACE
Hebrews 13: 20-21

This great blessing, the crowning glory of the final passage of the letter to the Hebrews, is still used regularly in many churches, especially in the Easter season. The writer has not, up to this point, made much of the actual resurrection of Jesus, though he has assumed it throughout. He has chosen to concentrate more on his sacrificial death on the one hand, and his going on our behalf into the heavenly sanctuary on the other. But both of these only make the sense they do because Jesus was raised from the dead, as the whole New Testament insists on page after page. And here, in drawing together the lines of thought in the letter as a whole, this finally becomes explicit...