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4. Its Authority asserted against ancient and more recent men. Concerning this Epistle Eusebius writes, Historia Ecclesiastica, chapter...

3. It is inscribed to the twelve tribes of the dispersion, that is, believing Jews dispersed outside the land of Canaan. This Epistle...

4. Chronology. Ahasuerus, husband of Esther, appears to have been Darius, son of Hystaspes. It is not clearly ascertained at what time...

2. The Author of the Epistle was James, not the son of Zebedee, called the greater; nor the Just, called Oblias, of the number of the...

1. The Inscription of the Epistle. Among the Catholic, or Canonical, Epistles, in the first place is posited the Ἰακώβου τοῦ Ἀποστόλου...

3. Argument. We have briefly expressed the argument of the book in the words of Saint Athanasius on its name. Namely, it covers what...

The Inscription of the Epistle, 1. The Author of the Epistle was James, not the son of Zebedee, called the greater; nor Justus, called...

2. The Writer of the book; its authority. That the writer of the book was either Ezra, or Joiakim the High Priest,[1] or the Great...

HOLY FATHERS: Constantinus Presbyter.[1] REFORMED: Gomarus, Johann Jakob Grynæus, Heidegger, Naum, Œcolampadius, Pareus, Perkins,...

The parts: I. That Christ, the Prophet, is to be heard, chapters 1:1-4:13: 1. Because He is heir of all, greater than the Angels: ...

9. The Parts of the Epistle are three: I. An Exhortation to the Hebrews, that they religiously attend upon Christ, the great Prophet,...

1. The inscription of the Book. Who was Esther? הֲדַסָּה/Hadassah. אֶסְתֵּר/ Esther. Was she Amestris, wife of Xerxes? This Book is...

8. It was written in the first Roman bonds near the end of the captivity. As far as the time of writing is concerned, it is generally...

The inscription of the Book. Who was Esther? הֲדַסָּה/Hadassah. אֶסְתֵּר/ Esther. Was she Amestris, wife of Xerxes? 1. The Writer of...

7. The Argument of the Epistle. Therefore, thus Saint Paul in this Epistles establishes the weaker Jews, who were ζηλωταὶ τοῦ νόμου,...

6. The occasion of writing was furnished by the Hebrews’ infirmity and affliction, and also mistrust, under which Paul was laboring, as...

5. The Epistle was written, not in Hebrew, as Clement of Alexandria, and others, and recently Salmasius, have insisted; but in Greek....

HOLY FATHERS: Bede. REFORMED: Lavater, Strigelius, Wolf, Burman. English: Arthur Jackson, John Mayer, Pilkington.[1] LUTHERAN:...

4. The Authority of the Epistle asserted against the ancient and more recent gainsayers. Therefore, there is no occasion either of...

3. Why would his name not be prefixed to the Epistle? In what sense he might say, Hebrews 2:3, that salvation was confirmed to Him by...