Hebrews 13:22

The writer adds, in closing, a request that the Hebrews would take in good part his “word of exhortation” a request which implies that they were in an irritable state of mind, if not against the writer, then because their own conscience was uneasy. As a reason for their bearing with his exhortation he urges its brevity “for indeed (καὶ γὰρ) I have written (ἐπέστειλα as in Acts 15:20) to you with brevity” (διὰ βραχέων, cf. διʼ ὀλίγων ἔγραψα, 1 Peter 5:12). To them it might seem that he had said too much; his own feeling was that he had been severely cramped by the limits of a letter.