Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews

NPNF (V1-14)St. Chrysostomfinds the same character of style and of phraseology in the Epistle as in the Acts. “But it isprobable that the title, Paul the Apostle, was not prefixed to it. For as he wrote to the Hebrews,who had imbibed prejudices against him and suspected him, he wisely guards against divertingthem from the perusal by giving his name.”•. The Sacred Elements there set before God. [The English edition has here missed the sense of•. The account of the first•. The cognate word•. The common editions have•. The common editions of St. Chrys. as the common text of the New Testament, add•. The common editions read•. The common text, besides other additions, adds the explanatory words•. The common texts add•. The common texts have•. The common texts of St. Chrys. add here•. The comparison is not between the living object and the picture, but between representationsin drawing and in painting; the word•. The editions had•. The effect of the sprinkling with blood. See•. The expression (•. The former word is used by St. Chrys. to express the portion of Scripture on which he is treating:the latter is a received term in the dialectical method of the Greeks to express a proposition putforward to be argued from, to see what consequences follow from it, with a view of showing itto be untrue, or determining the sense in which it is true. St. Chrys. means to say that thisproposition was only thus argumentatively inferred by St. Paul.•. The idea is (as shown by the context) that our spiritual things (hymns, praises, &c.) answer tothe parts of the victim laid upon the carnal altar of old.—F.G.]•. The other mss.•. The reading of the common edition is:•. The reading of the common editions is [•. The reading rendered above best suits the sense, and is supported by mss.•. The same word also is used in the LXX. in•. The same word is translated•. The sentence is not clear, but the meaning seems to be,•. The teaching of Paul of Samosata was regarded as closely connected with Judaism, and he andhis followers were called Jews.•. The term applied by Christians to whole nights spent in Psalmody and Prayer;•. The translation is made as if the pointing was•. The word•. The word includes the idea of comforting and encouraging as well as of exhorting.•. The word is elsewhere used in this sense by St. Chrys. See Mr. Field’s notes. St. Chrys. oftenpoints out that the Ep. ii.866