This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...and afflictions, partly by having become companions of those who so lived, viz. the oppressed Christian brethren in the faith. For they suffered with those who were in bonds (not with " me in my bonds," as some early MSS. have it), and boro the spoiling of their goods joyfully.--All this agrees with the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...and afflictions, partly by having become companions of those who so lived, viz. the oppressed Christian brethren in the faith. For they suffered with those who were in bonds (not with " me in my bonds," as some early MSS. have it), and boro the spoiling of their goods joyfully.--All this agrees with the persecution of the Jews in Alexandria under the emperor Caius Caligula (38--41), which Philo describes. This persecution of the Alexandrian Jews would no doubt also fall upon the young Jewish-Christian community. 34. Eead, "For ye had compassion on those in bonds, and took with joy the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye have a better and enduring possession for yourselves in heaven." Some of the best MSS. omit "in heaven." x. 35--39. The Hebrews still require patience, in order that they may receive the promise through the fulfilment of the Divine will. 37. The return of Christ is to be expected to come soon. 38. From Hab. ii. 3, 4 (here quoted more fully than in Eom. i. 17), let them learn that cowardly retreat leads to destruction, but faith leads to the deliverance of the soul.--The just should be "my just man." xi. I%e writer's own peculiar conception yf the fundamental principle of Paulinism. The writer desires not only to keep the Hebrews to the Christian faith generally, but also to win them to a Christianity free from the Law. xi. 1--3. Faith is not here, as with Paul, confined to the acknowledgment of Jesus as the promised Sou of God, but, from the first, is understood more generally as confidence in that which is hoped for, an unhesitating assurance of the invisible. 1. Eead, " But faith is an undoubting conviction of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen." 2. The elders: " the ancients." 3. From the definition of...
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