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Title: Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews

Author: Handley C.G. Moule

Release Date: August 4, 2007 [EBook #22237]

Language: English

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MESSAGES FROM THE EPISTLE
TO THE HEBREWS

MESSAGES FROM

THE EPISTLE TO

THE HEBREWS

_By_ HANDLEY C.G. MOULE, D.D.
BISHOP OF DURHAM

LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK
62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
1909

THE BIBLE IS THE SKY IN WHICH
GOD HAS SET CHRIST THE SUN.

JOHN KER, D.D.

_First Edition May 1909_
_Second Impression July 1909_

PREFACE

The following chapters are the work of intervals of leisure scattered
over a long time. The exposition had advanced some way when an
unexpected call to new and exacting duties compelled me to put it aside
for several years. Accordingly a certain difference of treatment in the
later chapters as compared with the earlier will probably be seen by the
reader, particularly a rather fuller detail in the exposition. But
purpose and plan are essentially the same throughout.

No attempt whatever is made, here or in the course of the work, to deal
with those literary and historical problems which so conspicuously
attach themselves to this Epistle. Who the "Hebrews" were is nowhere
discussed. Nor is any positive answer offered to a question to which
assuredly no such answer can be given, the question, namely, of the
authorship. In my opinion, in face of all that I have read to the
contrary, it still seems at least possible that the _ultimate_ human
author was St. Paul. All, or very nearly all, t