The Epistle to the Hebrews (Classic Reprint)

INTRODUCTION I PLAN AND ANALYSIS OP THE EPISTLE The aim of this division of the Introduction is to set forth as plainly as possible the argument and intention of the epistle. For this purpose three summaries are given : (1) an outline sketch of the plan, (2) an enlargement of this in detailed analysis, (3) a very brief rhetorical paraphrase. All three are coloured by the view adopted in this commentary of the circumstances out of which the epistle arose. Their proper place would be at the end of the critical and theological enquiries which recommend that view. But it may make for clearness if the results are shortly stated first. Prelude The epistle is a 6yos irapaKXrja-fas (xiii. 22): to what does it exhort ? To right conduct in an approaching crisis in which the readers must choose whether or no they will be faithful to their Lord. Such faithfulness must rest on a right conception of the Person and work of Christ. Hence Doctrine is interwoven with Exhortation. But i.-x. 18 is

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; PAOE; Introduction ix; I Plan and analysis of the epistle ix; II History of the reception, criticism and interpretation of the epistle xix; III The theology of the epistle lxxi; IV The text of the epistle cxxxviii; V The style of the epistle cxlv; The Greek Text 1; JTotes •*? »? • *»« 24; Index, of Contents 135; HEBREWS b

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