The Epistle to the Hebrews: With Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

E. C. Wickham

ISBN 10: 0260481858 / ISBN 13: 9780260481856

Published by Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Epistle to the Hebrews: With Introduction and Notes

The general purpose of this addition to the numerous Commentaries on the Epistle to the Hebrews is stated by the General Editor. But the particular Editor may be allowed to say one word as to his own view of what the purpose included.

His main desire in these pages has been to make the general argument of the Epistle clear and to exhibit it as a whole. The Epistle seems to him to be one that demands this more than other Epistles of the New Testament. Though in the form of a letter, and with the personal purpose of a letter, it is also a complete and artistic composition. There are no digressions properly so called. Even in what reads like a postscript the thoughts are put out in this form not by accident, but because the writer felt that in that way and at that moment they would most effectively answer his design.

It is in view of this character of the Epistle that the Editor has prefixed to the Commentary, besides the Summary of Contents, a full Paraphrase of the Epistle. A paraphrase is not a loose translation. It deliberately forfeits the power of reproducing in any way the literary form; but it aims at preserving, and in some degree making clearer than a translation can make it, the complete articulation of the thought. It is meant to be read with the Commentary, and as a chief part of it.

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Title: The Epistle to the Hebrews: With ...
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: HRD
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