The Epistle to the Hebrews, in a Paraphrastic Commentary: With Illustrations from Philo, the Targums, the Mishna and Gemara, the Later Rabbinical ... Christian Annotators, Etc (Classic Reprint)

The present work is tlie result of many liappy hours devoted to the instruction of Candidates for Holy Orders. My invariable practice was to commence our Greek Testament reading by the study of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Whereas the other epistles are addressed to separate Churches or individuals, and are devoted to special or locally interesting topics, the Epistle to the Hebrews presents us with no meagre epitome of those arguments and facts, drawn from the Old Testament Scriptures, upon which the superstructure of Christianity was laid. The first Christian Church at Jerusalem was built up of Jewish materials. In A cts vi. 7we read, ird Xvre o;A,o9 twv lepicov vtti Jkovov rfj TTLCTT ei, And a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. In the Epistle to the Hebrews we listen again to the arguments which, by the converting power of God s Holy Spirit, were so potent to con ince the very same men who rejected Jesus of Nazareth, and condemned Him to death, that they had been guilty of a grievous injustice, and that that same Jesus, whom the house of Israel crucified, God the Father hath made both Lord and Christ. (A cts ii. 36.) We understand how St. Paul and his companions reasoned S ce Xeye To) with the Jews, and how it is written concerning A po Uos, vt6v(o ;TOL i I ov SaL ot ;hia Karr).e y)(eTO Brjfxoaia, i7rl Sei.K vv ;B ta toov ypa(p(ov, elvat rov Xpia Tov h rovv. For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ (i.e., rrwan, theM
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