hebrews as an instructional appendix to romans 267
exposition of a sententia was widespread, constituting an early form of
christian commentary100 the precedent and thus warrant for which, as
margaret mitchell has demonstrated, they had ready-at-hand in the cor-
pus Paulinum. 101
(“christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed”). Heb 11:28 notes πάσχα (cf. only acts 12:4,
for new testament occurrences outside the four Gospels).
100 r. Hexter and david townsend (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Lit-
erature (oxford: oxford university press, 2012), 173.
101 mitchell, Paul, the Corinthians, and the Birth of Christian Hermeneutics.