The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews

Phil. i. 23.

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Rev. xxi. 10.

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John xiv. 3.

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Gen. vi. 7.

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Gen. ix. 9, 10.

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Deut. ix. 16, 19.

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Reading καὶ μυριάσιν, ἀγγέλων πανηγύρει, καὶ ἐκκλησίᾳ πρωτοτόκων (xii. 22, 23). This disconnected use of μυριάς is amply justified by Deut. xxxiii. 2, Dan. vii. 10, and Jude 14. Besides, πανήγυρις is precisely the word to describe the assemblage of angels and distinguish them from the Church.

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κριτῇ θεῷ πάντων.

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Chap. viii. 10.

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τετελειωμένων.

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Chap. xi. 40.

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Deut. v. 27, 28.

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παραιτησάμενοι (xii. 25).

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Chap. ii. 3.

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“The Bible finds me,” said Coleridge.

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Exod. xix. 18. In his citation of this passage our author forsakes the Septuagint, which has “And all the people were greatly amazed.”

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Haggai ii. 6, 7.

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2 Pet. iii. 10.

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Chap. xii. 28.

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Rev. iii. 21.

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λατρεύωμεν (xii. 28).

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Chap. vi. 10.

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Chap. x. 34.

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Chap. xiii. 1.

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1 Tim. v. 10.

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1 Tim. iii. 2.

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Christian Charity in the Ancient Church, English Trans., p. 92.

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Chap. i. 7.

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Gen. xviii. 2; xix. 1.

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The legend of Christopher is beautifully told by Oosterzee at the beginning of his book on The Person and Work of the Redeemer, English Trans. (Ed. 1886).

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Josh. i. 5.

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Acts xi. 28.

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μὴ παραφέρεσθε (xiii. 9).

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Rom. ix. 13.

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Rendall: The Epistle to the Hebrews, pp. xxv. and 139.

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Rom. xiv. 15.

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Rom. xiv. 6–8.

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καλόν (xiii. 9).

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χάριτι. The author has chosen a more classical word than that which St. Paul uses.

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περιπατοῦντες.

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Chap. xiii. 10.

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John vi. 51–55.

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1 Cor. x. 16.

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Exod. xii.

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διά.

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Lev. xvi. 27.

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So Rendall, loc. cit.

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2 Cor. vi. 15 sqq.

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Chap. xiii. 15.

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κοινωνίας.

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στενάζοντες (xiii. 17).

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ἀλυσιτελές. Comp. ver. 9.

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ἀποκατασταθῶ (xiii. 19).

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Chap. x. 10.