d appeal prevailed with the Christians within the doomed city "to
break the last bands of patriotism and superstition which attached them
to the Temple and the altar, and proclaim themselves missionaries of the
new faith, without a backward glance of lingering reminiscence"?[245]

FOOTNOTES:

[211] Chaps. ii. 1-5; iii. 1, 6; iv. 11, 16; vi.

[212] Chap. x. 19.

[213] =meta alethines kardias= (x. 22).

[214] =megan= (x. 21).

[215] =apo syneideseos poneras= (x. 22).

[216] Lev. viii. 6, 30.

[217] Eph. v. 26.

[218] Chap. iii. 1.

[219] =eis paroxysmon= (x. 24).

[220] =ethos= (x. 25).

[221] Matt. xxiv. 27.

[222] =hekousios= (x. 26).

[223] Chap. x. 29.

[224] =pneuma tes charitos=.

[225] See chap. vi. 6.

[226] Chap. x. 26.

[227] =zelos= (x. 27).

[228] Chap. x. 28.

[229] =paradeigmatizontas= (vi. 6).

[230] Chap. iii. 12.

[231] Chap. xii. 21.

[232] =empesein=.

[233] Deut. xxxii. 36.

[234] Chap. vi. 10.

[235] =photisthentes= (x. 32).

[236] =athlesin=.

[237] =pollen=.

[238] =houtos anastrephomenon= (x. 33).

[239] Reading =heautous= (x. 34).

[240] =eis peripoiesin= (x. 39).

[241] =me apobalete=.

[242] =mikron hoson hoson= (x. 37).

[243] Reading =mou= (x. 38).

[244] =peripoiesin= (x. 39).

[245] Dean Merivale, _Romans under the Empire_, chap. lix.

CHAPTER X.

_FAITH AN ASSURANCE AND A PROOF._

"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the proving of
things not seen. For therein the elders had witness borne to them.
By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word
of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which
do appear."--HEB. xi. 1-3 (R.V.).

It is often said that one of the greatest difficulties in the Epistle to
the Hebrews is to discover any real connection of ideas between the
author's general purpose in the previous discussion and the splendid
record of faith in the eleventh chapter. The rhetorical connection is
easy to trace. His utterances throughout have been incentives to
confidence. "Let us hold fast our confession." "Let us draw near with
boldness unto the throne of grace." "Show diligence unto the full
assurance of hope." "Cast not away your boldness." Any of these
exhortations would sufficiently describe the Apostle's practical aim
from the beginning of the Epistle. But he has just cited the words of
Habakkuk, and the prophet speaks of faith. How, then,