| Show EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS book of the bible Is of the most in tense interest the question who wrote the epistle to the hebrews Is one which still re unanswered endless t ons have been made by biblical scholars the bool has been ascribed in turn to appollos luke aquila and priscilla in collaboration and others but there Is no consensus of opinion no one claims for his own theory that 1 should be considered anything but a guess there Is a strange cascina tion about this veiled prophet so full of the poetry of an earlier faith who has given to the world his conception of christianity to him a religion ot conscience and of hope to which he had fled for refuge from a decaying a religion in which he had found a strong consolation even to the unlearned the book Is very literary and those who know con farm this instinctive judgment the writer drops the threads of his ment to find illustrations and orna ments and by no means disdains fine verbal effects hebrews has nothing of the eternal simplicity which has kept the meaning of the gospel clear among the swords and pens of ten thousand theologians no book in the new testament unless perhaps rev elat lons has suffered more from the theory of verbal inspiration something of the writers real mind has been we suspect irremediably over laid with the conclusions of dogma tits but for all those who desire to know what a cultivated man who was not st paul though about christianity before the end of the first century it remains of intense interest london spectator |
