Mark the Evangelist,
notices of, 427;
his relation to Peter and Paul, 427, seq.;
in what sense he was Peter's interpreter, 428.

Mark's gospel,
place, time of writing, and language, 428;
its design, 429;
its peculiarities, 430;
question respecting its closing passage, 430, seq.

Maschil, 287.

Masora and Masoretic text, 178, seq.

Mattathias, 359.

Matthew the Evangelist, 420.

Matthew's gospel,
its original language, 421;
present Greek form, 422;
primary design, 424;
characteristics, 425;
chronology, 426;
place and time of writing, 426;
integrity, 426;
its genealogy of our Lord, 424, 435.

Meat-offerings, 600.

Melchizedek, his person and typical character, 583.

Memphitic version, 407.

Messiah. See Christ.

Messianic Psalms, different principles of interpretation,
that of exclusive reference to Christ, 620;
that of an ideal personage, 620, seq.;
the typical view, 621.

Metaphor, 551.

Metonymy, 551.

Micah, book of, 340.

Michtam, 287.

Mosaic economy,
Christ its end, 118;
its preparatory character, 138;
objections to it considered, 138, 571;
its spirit was love, 139, seq.

Mottoes, remarks respecting, 533

Muratorian canon, 48, 89, 93, 398, etc.

Myths, remarks concerning, 556, 560.

N.

Nahum, Prophecy of, 341.

Nathan's writings, 251.

Nazarenes, their gospel, 422.

Nebuchadnezzar, his expeditions to Judea, 327.

Neginah and Neginoth, 287.

Nehemiah, his work in the restoration, 261.

Nehemiah, book of, 261, seq.

Nehiloth, 287.

New Jerusalem of Ezekiel's vision, 321, 627.

Nineveh. See Nahum.

Nitrian desert, Syriac manuscripts from, 405.

Numbers, book of, 237.

Numbers, symbolical, 508, 564, 610.

O.

Obadiah, Prophecy of, 338.

Oblations, or unbloody offerings, 600.

Old Latin. See versions, Latin.

Onkelos, Targum of, 206.

Origen,
his account of the Old Testament canon, 197;
of the New Testament canon, 398;
his Hexapla, 205.
See further under the several New Testament books.

P.

Paley's Horae Paulinae, 94.

Palimpsests, 60, 384;
examples of, 386.

Pantaenus, 40.

Papias, 44. See also under the several books of the New Testament.

Papyrus, 59; rolls of, 384.

Parables, 553;
their interpretation, 560, seq.

Paragraph Bibles, 378.

Parallelisms, 211, 534;
real and verbal, 534;
doctrinal and historic, 535, seq.

Parallelisms, poetic, 274, seq.

Parchments,