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Bible Commentaries
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts Expositor's Dictionary
Christ's Superiority to Angels.Chapter 2
Christ's Humanity; Salvation; Warning Against Neglect.Chapter 3
Jesus Greater than Moses; Warning Against Unbelief.Chapter 4
Rest for God's People; High Priesthood of Jesus.Chapter 5
Priestly Role of Jesus; Warning Against Immaturity.Chapter 6
Exhortation to Maturity; Promise and Hope.Chapter 7
Melchizedek's Priesthood; Superiority of Jesus' Priesthood.Chapter 8
New Covenant; Better Promises.Chapter 9
Earthly versus Heavenly Sanctuary; Christ's Sacrifice.Chapter 10
Christ's Once-for-All Sacrifice; Exhortations to Persevere.Chapter 11
Faith's Hall of Fame; Examples of Faith.Chapter 12
Endurance in the Race; God's Discipline.Chapter 13
Christian Conduct; Final Exhortations; Greetings.
- Hebrews
by Editor - William Robertson Nicoll
The Epistle to the Hebrews
The Epistle to the Hebrews is just such a performance as might naturally have come from an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures; in whom the intelligence, and the powers of combining, type-finding, and expounding, somewhat dominated the religious perceptions. The Epistle to the Hebrews is full of beauty and power; and what may be called the exterior conduct of its argument is as able and satisfying as Paul's exterior conduct of his argument is generally embarrassed. Its details are full of what is edifying.
Matthew Arnold, in St. Paul and Protestantism.
The object of the Epistle to the Hebrews was to prove the superiority of the Christian religion; the object of the Epistle to the Romans to prove its necessity.
Coleridge.
I cherish the thought of the richness there was in the first days of the Church, when even the writer of such an Epistle as this should be a forgotten man.
Westcott.
