From the homilies on the epistle to the Hebrews 14.1308 The character of the diction of the Epistle inscribed to the Hebrews does not have the unlearned 14.1309 quality in speech of the Apostle, who confessed himself to be unlearned in speech, that is, in phrasing. But the Epistle is more Greek in the composition of its diction, as everyone who is able to judge the differences of phrasing would confess; and again, that the thoughts of the epistle are admirable, and not second to the acknowledged apostolic writings, and this everyone who pays attention to the apostolic reading would agree is true. To these things after others he adds, saying: But I, giving my opinion, would say that the thoughts are the Apostle's, but the phrasing and the composition belong to someone who recorded the apostolic teachings, and, as it were, wrote a commentary on the things spoken by the teacher. If therefore any Church holds this Epistle as Paul's, let it be approved for this also, for not without reason have the men of old handed it down as Paul's. But who wrote the Epistle, in truth God knows. The account that has reached us is, by some saying that Clement, who became bishop of the Romans, wrote the Epistle; by others, that Luke, who wrote the Gospel and the Acts.

Ex homiliis in epistulam ad Hebraeos 14.1308 Ὁ χαρακτὴρ τῆς λέξεως τῆς πρὸς Ἑβραίους ἐπιγεγραμμένης Ἐπιστολῆς οὐκ ἔχει τὸ ἐν λόγῳ ἰδιωτι 14.1309 κὸν τοῦ Ἀποστόλου, ὁμολογήσαντος ἑαυτὸν ἰδιώτην εἶναι τῷ λόγῳ, τουτέστι, τῇ φράσει. Ἀλλὰ ἐστὶν ἡ Ἐπιστολὴ συνθέσει τῆς λέξεως ἑλληνικωτέρα, πᾶς ὁ ἐπιστάμενος κρίνειν φράσεων διαφορὰς, ὁμολογήσαι ἄν· πάλιν τε αὖ ὅτι τὰ νοήματα τῆς ἐπιστολῆς θαυμάσιά ἐστι, καὶ οὐ δεύτερα τῶν ἀποστολικῶν ὁμολογουμένων γραμμάτων, καὶ τοῦτο ἂν συμφήσαι εἶναι ἀληθὲς πᾶς ὁ προσέχων τῇ ἀναγνώσει τῇ ἀποστολικῇ. Τούτοις μεθ' ἕτερα ἐπιφέρει λέγων· Ἐγὼ δὲ ἀποφαινόμενος εἴποιμ' ἂν, ὅτι τὰ μὲν νοήματα τοῦ Ἀποστόλου ἐστὶν, ἡ δὲ φράσις, καὶ ἡ σύνθεσις, ἀπομνημονεύσαντός τινος τὰ ἀποστολικὰ, καὶ ὡσπερεὶ σχολιογραφήσαντος τὰ εἰρημένα ὑπὸ τοῦ διδασκάλου. Εἴ τις οὖν Ἐκκλησία ἔχει ταύτην τὴν Ἐπιστολὴν ὡς Παύλου, αὕτη εὐδοκιμείτω καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ, οὐ γὰρ εἰκῆ οἱ ἀρχαῖοι ἄνδρες ὡς Παύλου αὐτὴν παραδεδώκασι. Τίς δὲ ὁ γράψας τὴν Ἐπιστολὴν, τὸ μὲν ἀληθὲς Θεὸς οἶδεν. Ἡ δὲ εἰς ἡμᾶς φθάσασα ἱστορία, ὑπό τινων μὲν λεγόντων, ὅτι Κλήμης ὁ γενόμενος ἐπίσκοπος Ῥωμαίων ἔγραψε Ἐπιστολήν· ὑπό τινων δὲ, ὅτι Λουκᾶς ὁ γράψας τὸ Εὐαγγέλιον, καὶ τὰς Πράξεις.