who have come from Italy are with him. They may have been
exiles or fugitives who had sought safety during the first great
persecution of the Church in the days of Nero. They too send greetings.

He closes with the Apostolic benediction. For, whoever he was, he was
truly an Apostolic man.

FOOTNOTES:

[385] Chap. vi. 10.

[386] Chap. x. 34.

[387] Chap. xiii. 1.

[388] 1 Tim. v. 10.

[389] 1 Tim. iii. 2.

[390] _Christian Charity in the Ancient Church_, English Trans., p. 92.

[391] Chap. i. 7.

[392] Gen. xviii. 2; xix. 1.

[393] The legend of Christopher is beautifully told by Oosterzee at the
beginning of his book on _The Person and Work of the Redeemer_, English
Trans. (Ed. 1886).

[394] Josh. i. 5.

[395] Acts xi. 28.

[396] =me parapheresthe= (xiii. 9).

[397] Rom. ix. 13.

[398] Rendall: _The Epistle to the Hebrews_, pp. xxv. and 139.

[399] Rom. xiv. 15.

[400] Rom. xiv. 6-8.

[401] =kalon= (xiii. 9).

[402] =chariti=. The author has chosen a more classical word than that
which St. Paul uses.

[403] =peripatountes=.

[404] Chap. xiii. 10.

[405] John vi. 51-55.

[406] 1 Cor. x. 16.

[407] Exod. xii.

[408] =dia=.

[409] Lev. xvi. 27.

[410] So Rendall, _loc. cit._

[411] 2 Cor. vi. 15 sqq.

[412] Chap. xiii. 15.

[413] =koinonias=.

[414] =stenazontes= (xiii. 17).

[415] =alysiteles=. Comp. ver. 9.

[416] =apokatastatho= (xiii. 19).

[417] Chap. x. 10.

INDEX.

_The numerals refer to the pages._

Aaron, consecration of, 185;
priesthood of, 79, 128.

Abel's faith, 223.

Abraham, faith of, 213;
God's oath to, 101;
promise made to, 9;
seed of, 45.

Adam, 220;
the second, 36.

Agnostics, 235.

Acquittal of Christ, 168.

Alaric, 272.

Allegory of Melchizedek, 113.

Altar, 323.

Angels, assembly of, 301;
as emanations, 22;
man inferior to, 34;
ministry of, 27, 316.

Anticipation of nature, 241.

Antinomianism, 148, 201.

Antiochus Epiphanes, 264.

Apostasy, 95.

Architect of all, God the, 54.

Aristotle's doctrine of habit, 85.

Assemblies, Church, 187.

Assurance, 174.

Athletes, 194.

Atonement, day of, 296;
Christ's, 38.

Augustine cited, 142.

Authority of our High priest, 77.

Baptism, 186;
infant, 240.

Baptisms, doctrine of, 87.

Barak's faith, 26.

Benediction, apostolic, 329.

Bengel, 100.

Blessing of God, 89.

Brotherhood, Christ's, 39, 41.

Bruce, Dr., _Humiliatio