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

NPNF (V1-14)St. Chrysostom•The common texts substitute Jacob for Isaac here, omitting the following clause where Jacob ismentioned (as they also in the preceding sentence have•The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there wasnone other boat there save that one whereinto His disciples were entered and that Jesus wentnot with His disciples into the boat, but that His disciples were gone away alone; (howbeit therecame other little boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after thatthe Lord had given thanks;) when the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither Hisdisciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum seeking for Jesus.•The early Heretics denied the divine character of the Mosaic dispensation.•The following memorandum of the authorities for and against the genuineness of the Epistle ofBarnabas, and for its date, has been kindly furnished by the Rev. E. C. Richardson, Librarian ofthe Hartford Theological Seminary:—•The full yet craving still.•The heart-blood of a Friend,•The hired wailers were heathens and not present: St. Chrys. hints at having some corporalpunishment inflicted on them.•The history of the woman taken in adultery is omitted by St. Chrysostom, and all the Greekcommentators.•The inclining of the balance•The large proportion of quotations from the Psalms in this Epistle is noticed in the article uponit in Smith’s Bible Dictionary (where the proportion is stated as 16 out of 32); but my attentionwas first called to the bearing of this upon the question of authorship by the quick observationof Rev. Hermann Lilienthal. It is not easy to give a precise numerical statement of the proportionbecause of the large number of historical allusions which can hardly be reckoned as quotations,and also because the New Testament writers often clothe their thoughts in the familiar wordsof the Old Testament, apparently without any conscious quotation. This matter, however, whichcannot be tabulated, is quite in accord with the rest, and the whole Epistle is saturated with thelanguage and the historical allusions of the Psalms. Taking only what may fairly be consideredas designed quotations, the relative numbers taken from the Psalms are: Hebrews, 200; St. Luke,25; St. Paul, 39; all others, 25. The Apocalypse is omitted from the calculation. In the comparativelyfew quotations in St. Luke less than one-third (17 out of 55) are from the Psalms, and every oneof these in recording the words of others; less than one-fifth in St. Paul (16 out of 89); and in theothers 22 out of 116. In Hebrews almost exactly one-half.•The later mss.•The later texts add•The latter words heard at the Transfiguration.•The laying, &c. would.•The longer text in Sav. and Ben. adds,•The objection is met by other questions.•The passage is read differently in the ms.889