[99] 1 Cor. iii. 13.
[100] 1 Pet. i. 7.
[101] 1 Pet. iv. 12.
[102] Eccles. ii. 5.
[103] Heb. xii. 1.
[104] Heb. vi. 4, 5, 6.
[105] The difficulty in the two concluding verses of this chapter, arises from a vivacity of imagination in the pursuit and application of metaphors; a faculty, in which the Orientals excelled, and delighted. They pass suddenly from one idea to another, nearly, and sometimes, remotely, allied to it. They relinquish the primary sense, for another suggested by it; and without giving any notice, as we should do, of their intention. These numerous reflected lights, as we may call them, eagerly catched at by the mind in its train of thinking, perplex the attention of a modern reader, and must be carefully separated by him, if he would see the whole scope and purpose of many passages in the sacred writings.
[106] 1 Cor. iv. 7.
[107] 1 Cor. xiii.
[108] As in the case of the real presence in the sacrament of the altar.