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The writer of the Letter to the Hebrews has been called "the Apostle of Progress" (6:1a). Robert Browning wrote:
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made.
(Rabbi Ben Ezra, Stanza 1)
and
Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts'; God is, they are;
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
(A Death in the Desert, Stanza 30)
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made.
(Rabbi Ben Ezra, Stanza 1)
and
Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts'; God is, they are;
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
(A Death in the Desert, Stanza 30)
