Is Hebrews 9:26 a polemic against Revelation 13:8 ?

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Giuseppe
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Is Hebrews 9:26 a polemic against Revelation 13:8 ?

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From Hebrews 9:

25 Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26 Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
This passage raises the suspicion that it is a confutation of another Christian view that assumed that Christ was crucified more times from the earliest time: "since the creation of the world". Just as Revelation 13:8 says.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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