Greg Anderson

I don’t think it is at all unreasonable to conjecture that what the writer of Hebrews had in mind with the “authority” issue is the type of authority that comes with the knowledge of a particular subject, in this case knowledge of the Septuagint—which is what the Jews generally had for scripture in those days.

I also think that it is not entirely out of the domain of reasonable conjecture to say that copies of the Septuagint back then, were a very costly item, few and far between, and that readers may have had to travel to view a copy, and possibly pay a viewing fee too.

If this thesis is not too far off the mark, then the argument for the sense of authority as “boss over” is weaker than the one that would argue for “bearer of knowledge.”