The Epistle to the Romans more than any other a complete treatise on the fundamentals of Christian doctrine, -- No fresh revelations from God can nullify those which preceded them, -- The points of truth that introduce the epistle, -- Faith—obedience its character, -- The apostle’s desire to communicate with those he had never seen, -- Beware of contracted views of salvation, -- Conscious deliverance in the power of the Holy Spirit should be the result of the gospel preached, -- The meaning of the phrase, “From faith to faith,” -- Not all that is now revealed is the gospel, -- Holding the truth in unrighteousness, who do it, -- The moral history of man, -- What the natural conscience of man can do, -- God’s judgment of man in respect of conscience and of law, -- The place of the Jew in this estimate of man, -- Condemned by that in which he blindly made his boast, -- Righteousness of God, what is it? -- Præter—mission of sins, -- God looks for the sinner’s submission, not his victory, -- The question is not what man should be for God, but what God can be and is for man, -- Abraham the proof of the value of faith in justification before God, -- Abraham’s circumcision never constituted his righteousness, -- The connection of the promise to Abraham with resurrection, -- What gives peace with God? -- Creature standing gone forever; the glory of God the only ground now, -- The difference between man’s guilt and man’s nature, -- Justification of life, -- Sin and death are proof of one man’s disobedience with or without law, -- Life and liberty are proofs of one man’s obedience, -- Practical holiness is not founded on Christ having died for my sins, but on my being dead to sin, -- Baptism means not that I must die to sin, but that I have died to it, -- Remission of sins and deliverance from sin essentially different, -- Christ dead and risen is the answer to both, -- God has not only pardoned the sinner, but condemned the fallen nature, -- Flesh and Spirit contrasted, -- The Spirit as a power, a divine person dwelling in us, -- How does the gospel affect Israel’s distinctive place? -- The blessing of being a son of Abraham depends on its descent through Isaac, -- Israel, lost but for mercy, are but on a level with Gentiles, -- The stumbling--stone the key to Israel’s coming ruin, -- “Whosoever,” -- Israel forced to bear witness that the heathen should be brought in, -- Israel past, present, and future, in Romans -- Zion the scene of final triumph, -- Our reception of one another according to Christ’s reception of us, to the glory of God, -- True ministry gives not merely truth but suited truth to the saints..

The unfolding of the assembly in a practical way is the object of this epistle, -- The unbelief of Christendom tries to annul this epistle more than any other, -- No amount of gift, in few or many, can of itself produce holy spiritual order, -- Corinth saw the early rise of the Church of God among the Gentiles, -- Christ crucified puts all man’s glory in the dust, -- Jew and Greek— opposite as the poles— agree thoroughly in slighting the cross, -- The cross more than redemption merely, -- Christ crucified the death—knell for all man’s wisdom, power, and righteousness, -- Man incapable of fathoming the depths of divine things, -- The Holy Spirit the sole means of communicating blessing to the saints, -- How little many a young convert knows what will best lead him on! -- What care each servant needs to take how and what he builds! -- The Apostle’s lowliness a source of reproach among men, -- his highest glory before God, -- Church discipline, -- Who are to exercise it? -- The Holy Spirit’s estimate of sin; what is a railer? -- Brother going to law with brother, -- Why personal purity is essential to a Christian, -- Revelation and inspiration, -- The commandment of the Lord, and a spiritual judgment, -- Marriage. The position of a slave, -- What a wonderful antithesis of man is the Second Man! -- Without responsibility nothing is more ruinous than power and liberty, -- What grace does in respect to matters of right, -- How to use a gift, -- The danger of liberty lapsing into license, -- True ground is no ground for false conduct, -- The grace of Christ and the authority of the Lord, -- People generally fail in that of which they boast most, -- Woman’s place in the assembly, -- What became her if she had the gift of prophecy? -- The Agape and its influence on the Lord’s Supper, -- The Apostle’s regulation concerning it, -- Spiritual powers and their source, -- In the spiritual body there are important members not seen at all, -- The church a vessel of power for the maintenance of God’s glory, and responsible for this here below, -- Gifts that suppose the exercise of spiritual understanding have a far higher place than others, -- The aim and purpose of prophesying, -- The difference between the power of the Spirit and the power of a demon, -- The connection between Christianity and the resurrection, -- From what root of evil clerisy has grown, -- Man likes to understand before he believes—this is ruinous to faith, -- What is meant by a “mystery,” -- We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, -- Do we every one of us give as we are prospered by the way? -- A selfish personal keeping to ourselves of what we have is even worse than a too lavish expenditure, -- Liberty and responsibility of ministry in their mutual relations, -- It is good to maintain the specialty of ministry in the Lord.

Contrast between first and second epistles, -- Resemblance to the Epistle to the Philippians, -- Contrast with Philippians, -- Mutual consolation and affliction, -- The power of the Holy Spirit working in the new man lifts the believer completely above the flesh, -- “Yea and nay,” -- Satan has not lost but acquired in the dominion of the world a higher place by the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ, -- The devotion of apostolic love, -- Directions for dealing with the humbled delinquent of the first epistle, -- There is nothing like a manifestation of grace to call out grace, -- Righteousness in Christ connected with heavenly glory, -- The saints a letter of commendation, -- The Lord that Spirit that giveth life, -- The Spirit of the Lord, -- The ministrations of death, life, righteousness, and glory, -- The ministration of the Spirit over and above life, -- come down from the exalted man in glory, -- The vessel that contains the heavenly treasure, -- Liveliness of nature hinders the manifestation of the treasure, but its judgment leaves room for the light to shine out, -- For we which live are always delivered unto death, -- “Clothed” and “naked,” -- Clothed upon, that mortality may be swallowed up of life, -- Always confident, -- The judgment--seat of Christ, -- and those who stand at it, -- The effect of manifestation, -- Contrast of Messianic hopes with a higher glory, -- A Christian not occupied with a Messiah come to bless the world, -- In Christ, and what it signifies, -- God was in Christ not is), -- A sinner awakened takes God’s part against himself, -- It is never right to be narrow, and always wrong to be lax, -- Responsibility, individual as well as corporate, -- Inspiration far above the will of man, and the fruit of the action of the Holy Spirit, -- Contributions for saints, -- Trials of the Apostle in his labors of love, -- The prizes and honors the world gave him, -- A man in Christ taken up, in contrast with Paul in a basket let down, -- Patience a sign of apostleship, -- Conclusion.

A serious and grieved spirit manifest in the epistle, -- The fountain of grace touched by the intrusion of perverted law, -- Christianity knows nothing of successional arrangements, -- The facts of Christianity, and their value for the mind and walk, -- Abruptness of the opening of the Galatian letter, -- Integrity of the gospel as preached by Paul; any departure from it for another fatal, -- Rome, seeking to derive her authority from Peter, proclaims her identity with the circumcision, -- Connection between a servant and his testimony, -- Jealousy of man, when the grace of God works in a new channel and gives the go--by to antiquity, -- The Apostle separated from man by God, in order to proclaim more strikingly the singular ministry peculiar to him, -- Conference with flesh and blood out of place with a perfect revelation, -- Revelation of His Son in Paul and to Peter and the rest, -- Man, craving an appearance of unity and strength, sacrifices heaven for earth, Spirit for flesh, -- True desire for unity knows how to walk alone with God, -- Singularity of Paul’s conversion set in the highest place at the outset, -- Tenderness towards his nation does not prevent his snapping every earthly link with it, -- His testimony characteristically heavenly, -- Unity secured by deciding at Jerusalem the question of circumcision for Gentiles, -- The case of Titus, -- No interference with the work which others had been given to do, -- The gravity of Peter’s easy--going yieldingness to the Judaizing party, -- Peter’s act went to maintain a difference between Jew and Gentile, -- The true way to measure things is by their effect on Christ’s glory, -- The history of the flesh is soon over, but the history that faith opens into never closes, -- Everyone who goes back from such a gospel frustrates, as far as it goes, the grace of God, -- The cross judges the legalism of Galatians, as it judged the worldliness of Corinthians, -- The law holds out, but never gives, blessing, -- Gentiles were not under the curse of the law, -- The relation of law to the promises, -- “The seed” in its plurality, -- “The seed” in its unity, -- Christ the true Heir of all the promises of God, -- Promise was before the law, and flowed out of the grace of God, -- “God is one,” contrasted with the law which supposed two parties, -- In grace God in the person of His Son speaks and accomplishes all, -- Had grace and law been working together, there would have been two antagonistic roads to blessing, -- A person is not baptized into his own death, but into the death of Christ, -- Old and New Testament saints contrasted, -- “Abba,” the cry of the saint and Christ, -- Going back to Judaic elements is going back to heathenism, -- Idolatry no less gross because Jesus is the subject of it, -- Days and months and times and years, sensible helps to idolatry, -- “Be as I am; for I am as ye are,” -- An infirmity in the flesh, -- A stickler for law proves himself an Ishmaelite, -- Jerusalem and its desolate condition under law, -- There is no power for walk resulting from mere forgiveness of sins, -- Sense of duty is not power, -- Liberty first, power and love afterward, -- Occupation with Christ alone produces the love the law claimed, -- Power may be lost, responsibility never, -- Eternal life in a double sense: I have it and I seek it, -- If you take up the law in one particular, you must take it up altogether, -- Christianity brings everything to a climax, and settles all questions, -- “The marks of the Lord Jesus,” in contrast with circumcision.

God from Himself and for Himself, as the adequate motive and object before Him, even His own glory, -- The tendency to set aside what is personal for what is corporate, -- There is no place good enough for Christ, the Son, but heaven, -- Our blessing independent of the old creation, -- Angels not adequate judges of what pertains to us, -- “Child” differs in dignity from “Son” in its application to the Lord or the saints, -- The mistakes of human philosophy in its thoughts of the Godhead have arisen from importing the question of time, -- A divine nature given to us in its qualities of holiness and love, -- The terms wisdom and prudence applied to the saints, -- Not to be taken up as names or barren titles, -- There is nothing to indicate to mankind at large what God purposes to do, -- Nature and relationship, -- The riches of the glory of the inheritance, -- The Christian is even now the object of the very same power that raised up Christ from the dead, -- Christ was not raised up as an insulated individual, severed from others, -- The sinner’s place contrasted in Romans and Ephesians, -- Jew and Gentile in their mutual relation as sinners, -- God’s new workmanship, -- which workmanship we Christians are, -- A new man in which Jew and Gentile lose their distinctive place, -- The heavenly and the earthly aspect of the church, -- That which was first in counsel is last in revelation, -- The mystery revealed to holy apostles and prophets was not revealed by them all, -- The mystery does not mean the church merely, -- but Christ, and the church as a consequence, -- What the principalities and powers behold, -- The difference between the prayer of the first and that of the third chapter, -- Rooted that ye may be able, and so forth, -- Knowing Christ’s love, though unknowable, and God’s fullness, though infinite, -- The unity of the Spirit, -- Intrinsic unity, and of profession, -- Universal unity, -- Diversities, -- A man seated on the throne of God has given gifts to men, -- In vain to look for the church’s prosperity, if individual saints do not grow up unto Christ, -- Our duties flow from what we are or are made, -- God would have us imitate His own ways, as they have shone in Christ, -- Nor is there full Christian service, except in proportion as it is according to this pattern, -- Light is a necessity of the new nature, -- Christ is the pattern and perfection of grace in every relationship, -- What true Christian conflict is, -- not with flesh and blood, or nature, but with Satan, -- The armor of God, -- Activity for others, dependence for ourselves.

Practical appeal rather than doctrine the subject of this epistle, -- Mingling Christ with the affairs of every day, -- Joy undimmed in the midst of the trials and sorrows of ordinary life, -- There is no theory that first love must necessarily cool down, but the contrary, -- The power of testimony destroyed by the allowance of evil insinuations against him who renders it, -- but Christian experience is developed in abounding love -- Begin with Christ, go on with Christ, until the day of Christ, -- Looking to the Lord, -- Once right about Christ, you are right about everything while He is before you, -- The moral harmony in the fact, that he who preached the gospel of the glory of Christ should be a prisoner at Rome, -- “My bonds in Christ,” -- Affliction added to bonds, -- “This shall turn to my salvation,” -- “In nothing I shall be ashamed,” -- “I” and “me” of Romans and Philippians contrasted, -- Fruit of labor; its meaning, -- Conversation becoming to the gospel of Christ, -- Fear and trembling has no dread or doubt in it, -- Suffering for Christ’s sake is a gift of His love, -- Energy apt to give occasion for strife and vain--glory, -- Two chief stages of Christ’s humiliation flowing out of His perfect love, -- All error founded on a misuse of a truth against the truth, -- An archangel at best but a servant, and can never rise above it. Jesus emptied Himself to become one, -- The difference between reconciliation and subjection, -- The Apostle’s picture of the saint resembles the Master, -- The true source of humility in service, -- Unselfish love, -- The third chapter parenthetical, to bring in the active side of the Christian in contrast with the passive, -- The only allusion to flesh in this epistle is in connection with its religious form, -- What it is to win Christ, -- To be in Christ is better than to have the righteousness of the law, -- Resurrection from the dead, -- Critical note on τὴν ἐξανάστασιν τῶν νεκρῶν, -- continued, -- Forgetting those things that are behind refers to the progress that we may make, -- “Differently minded” is not agreeing to differ, -- The name of Christ is the true center of the saints, -- The last chapter founded on the active and passive aspects of the Christian, -- A woman shines most where she does not appear, -- Labor or conflict in the gospel, -- Moderation, -- Requests, to whom to be made known, -- Having committed what is miserable to God, we can go on rejoicing in His goodness, -- Independence founded on dependence.

A counterpart, but a supplement, to Ephesians, --,) the one presenting the Head, the other the body, -- Resemblance to Peter’s Epistles, -- The essential place of the Holy Spirit in Ephesians, -- The striking absence of allusion to Him in Colossians, -- This epistle a recall to Christ Himself, -- One may bow to Christ as Lord, and yet be painfully insensible to the higher glories of His person, -- Christianity is a thing of gradual growth in the soul, -- and not circumscribed by known limits, like philosophy, -- The inheritance of the saints in light, -- Christianity, instead of being helped by human philosophy, is only hindered and extinguished by it, -- Why is Christ first--born of all creation? -- As Creator of all things, -- How is Christ Head of the body? -- As firstborn from the dead, -- The fullness of Godhead dwelt in Jesus, -- but man would have none of it, and proved it above all in the cross, -- Satan allowed, apparently, to go on as if he had won the final victory, -- “If ye continue in the faith,” -- A minister of the gospel and of the church, two different spheres, -- Only Paul treats of justification by faith, -- The gospel to every creature under heaven; the church a select body, -- A gap, which Paul was deputed specially to write about, -- altogether in contrast with ancient or millennial glory, -- He who knows best the faithful love of Christ, is none the less an energetic laborer, -- What God is actually doing is the truth that needs pressing, -- The secret of true wisdom and blessing is in going on to know more of Christ than is already possessed, -- Ritualists and rationalists play into each other’s hands, -- The cross of Christ is the death--knell of the world, -- Atheism and Pantheism are the ultimate results of philosophy, -- The doctrine of baptism here is contrasted with Romans, -- One cannot be quickened with Christ without having all trespasses forgiven, -- In what consists “not holding the head,” -- There was no Christianity before Christ rose from the dead, -- The Ritualistic system traitorous to Him who died on the cross, -- Striving to be dead to what is wrong is but the law in a new and impossible shape, -- Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper, -- Ought I not to share my Master’s shame and dishonor here? -- Corruption of inner feeling in contrast with that which goes on outside of us, -- Put on charity, -- The peace “of Christ,” -- Continuance in prayer, -- What a spring of power is the love of Christ! -- Paul narrowed himself to no local ties, -- There are no portions of the sacred writings lost.

Any truth specially given by God is immediately the object of Satan’s continual and subtle attacks, -- “In God the Father” suggests an infantine condition rather than an advanced stage, -- How to deal with the entrance of error and the dangers that threaten the children of God, -- We should consider the manner God deals with saints in any special place, -- Simplicity is the secret for enjoying the truth as well as for receiving it, -- Do not attempt to draw from Scripture more than it undertakes to convey, -- What the first chapter teaches in respect to the Lord’s coming, -- How the Apostle adapted his ministrations to the advancing requirements of the Thessalonians, -- A sketch of that suffering which faith entails, -- Why men oppose the truth, -- Christianity not dreamy nor sentimental, but most real in its power of adapting itself to every need, -- The two prayers in this epistle, -- Love always precedes holiness, -- which is the fruit of the love to which the heart has surrendered, -- Why Thessalonians should be warned of even the grossest sins, -- The Aristotles and Platos not fit for decent company, -- Disadvantages Thessalonians labored under, and which do not fall to our lot, -- They had no fear of being lost, but were not clear what the Lord would do with them, -- Newly entered light gives occasion to the perception of much which we cannot solve at once, -- The character of the “shout,” and by whom it will be heard, -- The “day of the Lord” never applied to any dealing with the Christian as on the earth, -- It was too notorious a period to need fresh words about it, -- The presence of the Lord and the day of Jehovah, if confounded, reveal a secret of the heart, -- “Wake or sleep,”—beware of verbal analogies, -- For some to be over others in the Lord did not depend on apostolic appointment only, -- Disorderly folk are apt to know nobody over them in the Lord, -- The object of the second epistle, -- The terrors of “that day” used by the enemy to unsettle during a period of persecution, -- Traceable to a lack of that “patience of hope” which characterized an early faith, -- The two classes on whom vengeance will fall in “that day,” -- Gentiles know not God, and Jews obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, -- Both are the guilty tools of Satan, and shall be punished with everlasting destruction, -- Ἐνἐστηκε does not mean “at hand,” but “actually come,” -- The trouble of “that day” will befall the enemies, not the friends, of the Lord, -- If one is taught a truth by God, why be troubled about what comes from any other quarter? -- Some of the most important parts of Satan’s means for bringing about the apostasy are now actively at work, -- Jerusalem and Rome, -- The restraint and the restrainer, -- Every Christian waits for Christ with more or less intelligence, -- Events following the removal of the restraint, -- With startling rapidity events in our day are leading on to the brink of the precipice, -- The idea that the Roman empire is the restraining power not altogether wide of the mark, -- The patience of Christ is a keynote maintained from first to last.

Confidential communication from the Apostle to some of his fellow laborers, -- A Saviour God is in contrast with His dealings under law or government, -- Mellowed tone observable in the writings of the apostle as he drew to the close of his career, -- How the term “commandment” is sometimes misused, -- The negative use of the law, -- The law not enacted for the Christian, -- Sound doctrine—what is comprised in it, -- Ordinary duties of life in connection with the gospel of the glory, -- The faith and a good conscience, -- Delivery to Satan—its object, -- How often pre--occupation within makes us forget those without, -- Exhortation pursued in respect of that which would meet the eye even of an unconverted person, -- The way in which a woman can contribute to a right and godly testimony, -- Woman, and her lot here below, -- The personal qualifications of an overseer, -- Home influence in its relation to the house of God, -- The invalidity of present appointment to office, -- The qualifications of deacons and their wives, -- We are called to be a manifestation of the truth before the world, -- Faith waits till it gets a distinct word from God, -- The mystery of godliness, -- and its connection with the minutest affairs of work--a--day life, -- Every creature of God is good, -- Those who seek to give out had better take care they take in, -- The decorum that becomes everyone, especially a young man, enjoined upon Timothy, -- There is nothing either too great or too little for the Holy Spirit, -- The value of piety with a contented mind.

The character of the second epistle, -- A deep sense of what can be owned in nature can only follow a due apprehension of what God is— nature set aside, -- Timothy’s sensitive nature finds full sympathy in the Apostle’s large heart, -- while he accustoms his mind to expect hardship instead of shirking it, -- The disorder of the house of God in this epistle, -- In such a state of things, do the will of God; let others say what they please, -- There are very few saints from whom we may not derive some good, though not always in the same way, -- A single eye to Christ and His grace made Paul consistent, -- The firm foundation of God stands, -- Why one cannot deal as simply with people now as in apostolic times, -- It is not maintaining the unity of the Spirit to couple with the name of the Lord that which is fleshly and sinful, -- Isolation never desirable, though sometimes necessary, -- “Physical Christianity” a heathenish phrase, but designating much that finds its place in these last days, -- It is a matter of no little importance who says this or that, -- The importance of preaching the word when men will not endure sound doctrine, -- The coming of the Lord in no way manifests the faithfulness of the servant; the appearing will, -- A book or a cloak not too small a matter to bring the Spirit of God into.

This has altogether a different character from the epistles that have lately been occupying us, -- Philemon, Apphia, Archippus, -- What movements of heart about a runaway slave! -- The most excellent of men have broken down occasionally by the pettiest things that entice or provoke self, -- Would Paul the prisoner and the aged make an ineffectual claim on the heart of Philemon? -- The delicacy of feeling and the sense of propriety which grace forms are truly exquisite, -- It is not always a question of doing a right thing, but of doing it in the right way, -- Christianity is not a system of earthly righteousness, but the unfolding of the grace of Christ and of heavenly hopes, -- The heart that could stand out against such appeals of grace was far from Philemon.

Reasons for supposing Paul to be the writer of this epistle, -- His name suppressed because he takes the place of a teacher and not of an apostle, -- The epistle is a consummate treatise upon the bearing of Christ and Christianity on the law and the prophets, -- Paul would show them thus the infinite dignity of the Messiah whom they had received, -- Who so suitable to introduce Jesus, the rejected Messiah, at the right hand of God, as Saul of Tarsus? -- A striking absence of allusion to the one body, -- But there was One dearer to the heart of Paul than the church itself, -- Reduce the glory of Christ, and you equally lower your judgment of the state of man, -- Previous revelation to Israel partial and piecemeal, but in Christ the fullness of the truth shines out, -- The place angels held in the Jewish mind, -- used to bring into greater relief the astonishing place of man in the person of Christ, -- God never singled out an angel, and said, “Thou art My Son!” -- But unto the Son He saith, “Thy throne, O God,” -- Messiah is called “Jehovah,” and that in His deepest shame, -- The perfection of Messiah’s submission in contrast with the permanence of Jehovah, -- Then His exaltation on high as man till the hour of judgment on His foes, -- The glory of Christ as Son of Man, -- Man—his position in the world to come, -- Christ’s death the ground of reconciliation for the universe, -- The doctrine of the epistle, and its suitability to the wants of the believer traversing the wilderness, -- Common place of the Sanctifier with the sanctified, -- Sin atoned for, persons reconciled, -- Chapters -- and -- introduce the basis of the high--priesthood; chapters -- and -- a digression, linking themselves, however, with the first two, --a The Apostle and high priest of our profession is in contrast with that of the Jews, -- Difficulty at first in reconciling the fact of a Messiah come, and gone to glory, with a people left in shame and sorrow, -- explained by the fact, that the path of the people of God is a path of faith now, just as it was before, -- What is the meaning of the rest of God? -- “We which have believed do enter into rest”—its bearing, -- God had rested from His works, but had never rested in them, -- The rest is still beyond, -- “There remaineth therefore a rest,” -- Mistake to apply the rest to rest of conscience, -- In chapter -- we enter on the priesthood, -- “For every high priest taken from among men” cannot apply to Christ, -- Such is not the Priest God has given us, -- At the same time there is no forgetfulness of the suffering obedience of Christ’s place here below, -- Religious tradition and philosophy are the main sources of spiritual dullness, -- Hebrews pressed as to their excessive danger of abandoning Christ for religious traditions, -- The word of the beginning of Christ, -- The description of a confessor with all the crowning evidences of the gospel, but not a converted man, -- κοινωνὶ and μέτοχοι, -- Renewal to repentance an impossibility, and why, -- The promise to Abraham, and the hope set before us, -- The weakest faith that the New Testament acknowledges—fleeing for refuge, -- Followed by strong consolation—even that which enters within the veil, -- The great theme—Christ a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec—resumed, -- The time for the proper exercise of the Melchisedec priesthood of Christ is not yet arrived, -- Meanwhile the Spirit of God directs attention, not to the exercise, but to the order of the Melchisedec priest, -- The indisputable superiority of the Melchisedec priesthood to that of Aaron, -- This Priest was to be a living, undying Priest, -- Jehovah’s oath, -- A Priest always in connection with the people of God; never as such with those outside, -- It became God that Christ should go down to the uttermost—us that He should be exalted to the highest, -- “On high” and “in the heavens,” -- The exercise of the functions of Christ as a Priest, -- and as a Mediator of the new covenant, -- Remarkable how little the Holy Spirit appears in this epistle, -- Why the tabernacle is always referred to, and not the temple, -- Why allusion to the sanctuary is made, -- The rent veil, -- διαθήκη means “testament” as well as “covenant,” -- Why it should be “testament” in two places alone and covenant in all others, -- ὀ διαθέμενος is rightly rendered “the testator,” -- The contracting party had not to die, -- The death of Christ, both in the sense of a victim sacrificed and of a testator, though a double figure, is evident to all, -- There is but one offering and one suffering of Christ once for all, -- He who was without sin in His person and all His life, had everything to do with sin on the cross, -- Christianity comes in between the work of Christ and His coming in glory, -- “Conscience of sins” means a dread of God’s judging one because of his sins, -- A book which none ever saw but God and His Son, -- Εἰς τὸ διηνικἐς does not express for eternity, but “for continuance,” -- The Jew never understood his law till the light of Christ on the cross and in glory shone on it, -- In chapter -- are warnings for those who turn from Christianity; in chapter -- for those who turn from the one sacrifice, -- Similarities in the two chapters, -- What faith is, -- A simple word of Scripture settles a thousand questions, -- Reason is ever drawing conclusions: God is, and reveals what is, -- Faith brings God into everything, -- Abraham and his faith, -- Moses acts in faith, not policy, -- What is the “better thing” provided for us? -- The reward of the life of faith, -- In this epistle the old and new natures are not separated, as in the other epistles, -- Saints are here dealt with as to their walk, -- There is nothing more serious than to set grace against holiness, -- A magnificent picture of Christianity in contrast with Judaism, -- Sinai and Zion, -- The special glories of Zion, -- The heavenly city that Abraham looked for, -- The spirits of just men made perfect, -- How the most awful threat is turned into the most blessed promise, -- Practical exhortations, -- Christendom takes the middle ground of Judaism, -- Access into the holiest involves also the place of ashes outside the camp, -- Are these two things true of you? -- All the effort of Christendom is first to deny the one, and then to escape from the other, -- God’s final call, -- Two kinds of sacrifice to which we are now called, -- Closing remarks, -- No place of death to sin, the law, or the world, no privilege of union with Christ, will enable a soul to dispense with the truths contained in this Epistle to the Hebrews.