Produced by Marcia Brooks, Colin Bell, Nigel Blower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Transcriber’s Note: This e-text includes Greek characters and punctuation that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode) text readers, e.g. ὁ λόγος. If any of these characters do not display properly, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) version of this text instead, in which the Greek words have been transliterated. _Italic_ and *bold* words in the original have been enclosed in underscores and asterisks respectively in this version. A few minor typographical errors and incorrect verse numbers have been silently corrected. The Table of Contents and Index refer to page numbers in the original text. All advertising material has been placed at the end of the text.] THE EXPOSITOR’S BIBLE EDITED BY THE REV. W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, M.A., LL.D. _Editor of “The Expositor,” etc._ THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS BY THOMAS CHARLES EDWARDS, D.D. London HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27, PATERNOSTER ROW MCMIV THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS BY THOMAS CHARLES EDWARDS, D.D. PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES, ABERYSTWYTH _NINTH EDITION_ London HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27, PATERNOSTER ROW MCMIV _Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury._ PREFACE. In this volume the sole aim of the writer has been to trace the unity of thought in one of the greatest and most difficult books of the New Testament. He has endeavoured to picture his reader as a member of what is known in the Sunday-schools of Wales as “the teachers’ class,” a thoughtful Christian layman, who has no Greek, and desires only to be assisted in his efforts to come at the real bearing and force of words and to understand the connection of the sacred author’s ideas. It may not be unnecessary to add that this design by no means implies less labour or thought on the part of the writer. But it does imply that the labour is veiled. Criticism is rigidly excluded. The writer has purposely refrained from discussing the question of the authorship of the Epistle, simply because he has no new light to throw on this standing enigma of the Church. He is convinced that St. Paul is neither the actual author nor the originator of the treatise.