The Book of Hebrews

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Marathon requiring the shedding of every hindering weight (4)
• First anointed brother whose descendants needed annual replacements (5)
• Long-haired Nazirite who pulled down pagan pillars in his finale (6)
• Merely a shadowy silhouette of good things to come, lacking substance (3)
• Enclosure outside of which believers must travel, bearing public stigma (4)
• Maritime stabilizer of the soul fastened behind the curtain (6)
• Faithful domestic servant over a household that Christ created (5)
• Salem monarch without genealogy, king of peace and righteousness forever (11)
• Son placed on firewood as if resurrected back from the dead in a figure (5)
• Cleanse ceremonial pollution through the sprinkling of red droplets (6)
• Golden container that held edible desert dew (3)
• Title deed of things hoped for and proof of unperceived reality (5)
• Intervening arbiter bridging two estranged parties across a gulf (6)
• Silhouetted outline of good things, never the actual reality (6)
• Bear up under chastisement as legitimate children rather than bastards (6)

Down

• Pedestrian who vanished because his lifestyle pleased his Creator (5)
• Sacred table from which those serving the tent have no right to feast (5)
• Residue of a scorched red heifer mixed with water for ceremonial purification (3)
• Wind-and-fire spirit relegated to a servant role beneath the Son (5)
• Vessel carrying manna and broken tablets, hidden behind thick fabric (3)
• Trailblazer who authored the journey of belief and crossed the threshold first (7)
• Testamentary agreement mediated with superior promises and immutable bonds (8)
• Patriarchal tithe-collector who paid tithes while still in ancestral loins (4)
• Perishable stone complex whose obsolescence loomed over the audience (6)
• Ancient epistle addressing Jewish believers wrestling with temple pull (7)
• Legal inheritor of the entire cosmos appointed before the eons began (4)
• Transgression requiring continual shedding until a final offering (3)

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