LITERAL TRANSLATION

FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK,

OF ALL THE

APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES.

WITH

A COMMENTARY, AND NOTES,

PHILOLOGICAL, CRITICAL, EXPLANATORY, AND PRACTICAL

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.

BY JAMES MACKNIGHT, D. D.
AUTHOR OF A HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS, &c.

IN SIX VOLUMES,

TO WHICH 18 PREFIXED,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

VOL. V.

BOSTON :

PUBLISHED BY W. WELLS AND T. B. WAIT & Co

T. B. Wait and Co. Printers.

1810.

CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME.

HEBREWS, p. 1.

PREFACE... Sect. I. That Paul is the author of this epistle....II. Of the people
to whom this epistle was written; of the occasion of writing it; and of the
language in which it was written.....III. Of the matters contained in it; of
Paul's method of reasoning in it; and of the proofs by which he establishes
the doctrines advanced in it.....IV. Of the time of writing it.

Epilogue to St. Paul's Epistles, p. 309.

JAMES, p. 317.

PREFACE.....Catholic epistles, why so named....Sect. I. The history of James

the writer of this epistle.....II. Its authenticity established....III. Of the per-

sons to whom it was directed; of the time when, and the place where it

was written; and of the death of James....IV. Of the purpose for which

this epistle was written.

1 PETER, p. 408.

PREFACE.....Sect. I. The history of Simon Peter..... II. The authenticity
of this epistle established....III. Of the persons to whom it was directed.....
IV. Of the purpose for which it was written, and of the matters con-
tained in it.....V. Of the time and place of writing it.

2 PETER, p. 502.

PREFACE.....Sect. I. The authenticity of this epistle established.....II. Of the

time when it was written.....III. Of the persons to whom it was written....

IV. Of the occasion on which it was written.....V. Of the matters contained

in it.

A NEW

LITERAL TRANSLATION

OF ST. PAUL'S

EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS.

PREFACE.

THE authenticity of the epistle to the Hebrews having been disputed, both in ancient and modern times, it will be necessary, before other matters are introduced, to state fairly, and to examine impartially, the arguments on each side of the question, that we may know where the greatest weight of evidence lieth. This is the more necessary, not only because the chief doctrines of the gospel are more expressly asserted and more fully explained in the epistle to the Hebrews, than in any other of the inspired writings; but because these doctrines are confirmed in that epistle, by testimonies brought from the writing of Moses and the prophets. Wherefore, if the authenticity of the epistle to the Hebrews is established, and it is shewed to be the production of an inspired apostle, the peculiar doctrines of the gospel, being confirmed therein by the Jewish as well as by the Christian revelation, they will appear in so clear a light, that the controversies concerning them, which have so long divided the church, ceasing, greater unity of faith and love, it is to be hoped, will at length take place, than hath hitherto subsisted among the disciples of Christ.

SECTION I.

Of the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

Although the writer of the epistle to the Hebrews hath in no part of it introduced his own name, we are certain, that the