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Bible Commentaries
The Expositor's Bible Commentary The Expositor's Bible Commentary
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 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
PREFACE
In this volume the sole aim of the writer has been to trace the unity of thought in one of the greatest and most difficult books of the New Testament. He has endeavoured to picture his reader as a member of what is known in the Sunday-schools of Wales as "the teachers’ class," a thoughtful Christian layman, who has no Greek, and desires only to be assisted in his efforts to come at the real bearing and force of words and to understand the connection of the sacred author’s ideas. It may not be unnecessary to add that this design by no means implies less labour or thought on the part of the writer. But it does imply that the labour is veiled. Criticism is rigidly excluded.
The writer has purposely refrained from discussing the question of the authorship of the Epistle, simply because he has no new light to throw on this standing enigma of the Church. He is convinced that St. Paul is neither the actual author nor the originator of the treatise.
In case theological students may wish to consult the volume when they study the Epistle to the Hebrews, they will find the Greek given at the foot of the page, to serve as a catch-word, whenever any point of criticism or of interpretation seems to the writer to deserve their attention.
T. C. E.
ABERYSTWYTH, April 12th, 1888.
