Chapter I: 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_.

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.
THE REVELATION IN A SON 3

CHAPTER II.
THE SON AND THE ANGELS 21

CHAPTER III.
FUNDAMENTAL ONENESS OF THE DISPENSATIONS 51

CHAPTER IV.
THE GREAT HIGH-PRIEST 69

CHAPTER V.
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF RENEWAL 83

CHAPTER VI.
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF FAILURE 99

CHAPTER VII.
THE ALLEGORY OF MELCHIZEDEK 113

CHAPTER VIII.
THE NEW COVENANT 133

CHAPTER IX.
AN ADVANCE IN THE EXHORTATION 183

CHAPTER X.
FAITH AN ASSURANCE AND A PROOF 199

CHAPTER XI.
THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM 213

CHAPTER XII.
THE FAITH OF MOSES 233

CHAPTER XIII.
A CLOUD OF WITNESSES 259

CHAPTER XIV.
CONFLICT 273

CHAPTER XV.
MOUNT ZION 293