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Show EPISTLE TO THE HEBREW8. Book of the Blblo Is Of the Most Intense In-tense Interest. Tho question who wrote tho epUtlo to tho Hebrews Is one which still remains re-mains 'unanswered. Endless suggestions sugges-tions havo been mado by Bibical scholars. Tho book has been ascribed In turn -to Appollos, Luke, Aqutla and Prlscllla in collaboration, and others; but thoro Is no consensus of opinion, no ono claims for his own thoory that It should bo considered anything but a guess. Thero Is a strango fascination fascina-tion about this veiled prophet, so full of the poetry of an earlier faith, who has given to tho world his conception of Christianity to him a religion of consclenco and of hopo, to which ho had "fled for refuge" from a decaying ceremonialism, a religion in which he had found "a strong consolation." Even to tho unlearned tho book is very lltorary, and thoso who know confirm con-firm this instlnctlvo Judgment. Tho writer drops tho threads of his argument argu-ment to find Illustrations and orna-monts, orna-monts, nnd by no means disdains flno verbal effects. Hebrews has nothing of tho eternal simplicity which has kept tho meaning of tho Gospel clear among tho swords nnd pons of ten thousand theologians. No book in tho Now Testament unless, perhaps, Itov-olntlons Itov-olntlons has suffered more from tho theory of verbal inspiration. Something Some-thing ot tho writer's rcai mind has been, wo suspect, irremediably overlaid over-laid with tho conclusions of dogmatists; dogma-tists; but for all thoso who deslro to know what n cultivated man, who was not St. Paul, though about Christianity beforo tho end of tho first century. It temalnB of intense interest. London Spectator. |