History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100.

composition to Luke.^1229 Origen observes the greater purity of the Greek style,^1230 and mentions Luke and Clement, besides Pau ...

(c) In 2:3 the writer expressly distinguishes himself from the apostles, and reckons himself with the second generation of Chris ...

(b) Luke.^1238 He answers the description of 2:3, writes pure Greek, and has many affinities in style.^1239 But against him is t ...

I.—The Position of Hebrews in the New Testament. In the old Greek MSS. (א, B, C, D) the Epistle to the Hebrews stands before the ...

11:16; 1 Tim. 3:1; 6:10), παρακοή(Heb. 2:2; Rom. 5:10; 2 Cor. 10:6), πληροφορία(Heb. 6:11; 10:22; Col. 2:2; 1 Thess. 1:5), φιλοξ ...

(c) Protestant:Jos. Mede (Clavis Apocalyptica, Cambr., 1632; Engl. transl. by More, 1643; a new transl. by R. B. Cooper, Lond., ...

rests on faith in a continuous providence of God ruling over the whole world, and with peculiar efficacy over Israel and the con ...

arranged in three parts: a prologue, the battle with successive encounters, and an epilogue. In both the invisible power presidi ...

which the numbers seven, three, four, and twelve are used with symbolic significance. There are intervening scenes of rest and t ...

Saviour? Able scholars, rationalistic as well as orthodox, have by thorough and patient investigation discovered or fully confir ...

where also their Lord was crucified" (Rev. 11:8). The existence of the twelve tribes seems also to be assumed in 7:4–8. The advo ...

It was at this unique juncture in the history of mankind that St. John, with the consuming fire in Rome and the infernal spectac ...

glory and majesty," and taught the premillennial advent, the literal restoration of the ancient Zion, and the future apostasy of ...

on under ever-varying forms. In this way it teaches, like all the prophetic utterances of the Gospels and Epistles, lessons of w ...

the employment of the letters of the Hebrew and Greek alphabets for the designation of numbers. The Hebrew Aleph counts 1, Beth ...

The beast must refer to heathen Rome and the seven heads to seven emperors. This is evident from the allusion to the "seven moun ...

Latinus was the name of a king of Latium, but not of any Roman emperor. Hence it must here be taken in a generic sense, and appl ...

lectio 616; for this number precisely corresponds to the Latin form, Nero Caesar, and was probably substituted by a Latin copyis ...

would destroy all confidence in its prophecy. If John, as these writers maintain, composed it in 68, he lived long enough to be ...

their blasphemous apotheosis culminates. In support of it may be quoted "the names of blasphemy on the heads of the beast," Rev. ...