he objections to his name
which the phenomena of the Epistle _prima facie_ present, and some of
which lie unquestionably deep, seem to be capable of a provisional
answer if we assume, what is so conceivable, that the Apostle committed
his message and its argument, on purpose, to a colleague so gifted,
mentally and by the Spirit, that he might be trusted to cast the work
into his own style. The well-known remark of Origen that only God knows
who "wrote" the Epistle appears to me to point (if we look at its
context) this way. Origen surely means by the "writer" what is meant in
Rom. xvi. 22. Only, on the hypothesis, the amanuensis of our Epistle
was, for a special purpose presumably, a Christian prophet in his own
right.

In any case the author, if not an apostle, was a prophet. And he carries
to us a prophet's "burthen" of unspeakable import, and in words to which
all through the Christian ages the soul has responded as to the words of
the Holy Spirit.

HANDLEY DUNELM.

_Easter, 1909._

CONTENTS

I
PAGE

CONSIDER HIM 1
Heb. i.-ii.

II

A HEART OF FAITH 8
Heb. iii.

III

UNTO PERFECTION 14
Heb. iv.-vi.

IV

OUR GREAT MELCHIZEDEK 23
Heb. vii.

V

THE BETTER COVENANT 32
Heb. viii.

VI

SANCTUARY AND SACRIFICE 42
Heb. ix.
VII

FULL, PERFECT, AND SUFFICIENT 51
Heb. x.

VIII

FAITH AND ITS POWER 61
Heb. xi. (I.).

IX

FAITH AND ITS ANNALS 71
Heb. xi. (II.).

X

FOLLOWERS OF THEM 80
Heb. xii. 1-14.

XI

SINAI AND SION 90
Heb. xii. 14-28.

XII

APPEALS AND INSTRUCTIONS 100
Heb. xiii. 1-14.

XIII

LAST WORDS 110
Heb. xiii. 15-25.

MESSAGES

FROM THE

EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS

CHAPTER I

CONSIDER HIM

HEB. i.-ii.

Let us open the Epistle to the Hebrews, with an aim simpl