The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews

by Thomas Charles Edwards

• David’s faith, [263].
• Death a spiritual conception, [43].
• Deborah’s faith, [261].
• Delitzsch cited, [114].
• Demons, faith of, [224].
• De Lyra, [258].
• Discipline of conscience, [175];
  • of character, [283].
• Doctrines, strange, [317].
• Dominion bestowed on man through Christ, [36].
• Dreams once a revelation of God, [10].

• Earnestness, [100].
• Ecstasy, [11], [53].
• Effulgence of God’s glory, [12].
• Eleazar’s faith, [264].
• Elijah’s removal, [220];
  • his faith, [263];
  • his sudden appearances, [6];
  • defiled by touching a dead person, [155].
• Elisha defiled by touching a dead person, [155].
• Emanations, doctrine of, [21] sqq.
• Enoch’s faith, [219].
• Ephesians, Epistle to the, [52].
• Equity of our High-priest, [72], [74].
• Esau a representative of the worldly spirit, [287].
• Essenes, [26], [320] sqq.
• Eternal duration of Christ’s priesthood, [116].
• Exhortations of the Epistle compared, [183].
• Exmanition of Christ, [44].

• Failure, impossibility of, [99].
• Faith, as an initial grace, [86];
  • as confidence, [200];
  • as trust, [201];
  • and works, [201];
  • as an inner life, [201];
  • and morality, [202];
  • as a realisation of the unseen, [204];
  • as proof, [204];
  • as obedience, [215];
  • groping for the light, [238];
  • as endurance, [273];
  • the better, [267].
• Family, the, [241].
• Father of our spirit, God as, [284].
• Fatherhood, of God, [32];
  • Old Testament conception of God’s, [145];
  • Christ’s conception of God’s, [145].
• Federalist theology, [126].
• Finality of Christ’s work, [167].
• First-begotten, Christ the, [26].
• Flesh, use of the word, [152].
• Forensic conception of the atonement, [171], [224].
• Forgiveness, [145] sq.;
  • under the Old Testament, [146].
• Forty years since Christ’s ascension, [57].

• Galatians, Epistle to the, [175].
• Gideon’s faith, [261].
• Glory, of sonship, [37];
  • of leadership, [38];
  • in power to consecrate, [39];
  • in destroying Satan, [42].
• God, not a mechanician, [209];
  • the Son is, [27];
  • a consuming fire, [309].
• Gnostics, [22].
• Greek gods human, [21].

• Habakkuk, prophecy of, [195].
• Habit, Aristotle’s doctrine of, [85].
• Habits, evil, [91].
• Hades, Christ in, [170].
• Haggai, prophesy of, [306].
• Heathenism, [64], [202].
• Heaven, a sanctuary, [70];
  • purification of, [163];
  • a city, [218].
• Hebrew conception of God, [21].
• Heir, Christ the, [8].
• Herod, deification of, [96].
• Heroes of religion, [234].
• High-priest, the great, [69].
• High-priest, the, an embodiment of the old covenant, [69].
• Hofmann on Christ’s humiliation, [44].
• Holiest place, the, [150] sq.
• Holy Ghost, partaking of the, [91];
  • sin against the, [95].
• Hope of faith, [276].
• House, God’s, [56].
• Humiliation of Christ, [44];
  • dominion rests on, [37].

• Ideas of God, [208].
• Ignatius, St., [76].
• Illumination, gift of, [93].
• Illusiveness of life, [221].
• Image, use of the word, [176];
  • of God’s substance, [13].
• Imagination, nature’s highest gift, [4].
• Implicit faith, [241].
• Immutable things, [103].
• Incarnation, the, [45] sq.
• Incense, altar of, [151].
• Individualism, [141].
• Inheritance, the eternal, [161].
• Initial grace, [91].
• Intercession of Christ, [128], [134].
• Interpretation of nature, [241].
• Introspection, [105].
• Isaac, [102];
  • resurrection of, [228];
  • blessing of, [259].
• Isaiah, cited, [40];
  • faith of, [261].

• Jacob’s blessing, [249], [259].
• James, St., on faith, [200].
• Jephthah’s faith, [261].
• Jeremiah predicts a new covenant, [138].
• Jerusalem, the church of, [9], [85];
  • the heavenly, [153].
• Jesus, as God’s servant, [55];
  • looking unto, [279];
  • faith of, [280];
  • as leader and perfecter of faith, [280];
  • unchangeable, [318].
• John, St., First Epistle of, [135].
• Joseph, faith of, [260].
• Josephus on Essenes, [26].
• Joshua son of Hanan, [188].
• Judah, Jesus sprang from, [122].
• Judaism, earlier and later, [234];
  • Christ not the flowering of, [249].
• Judgment, the coming of Christ a, [188];
  • doctrine of eternal, [87].
• Justice, God’s, [99].

• Kindness, brotherly, [99].
• King, Christ the theocratic, [26].
• Kingship of Christ, [179], [308].
• Knowledge of God, [144].
• Kurtz, History of the Old Covenant, [253].

• Lapsed, the, [95].
• Law, given through angels, [23];
  • given by the Son, [31];
  • contrasted with salvation, [31];
  • how far immutable, [63].
• Laying on of hands, [87].
• Legalism, [148], [202].

• Maccabæan Princes, [115].
• Macknight, [248].
• Malebranche cited, [205].
• Man, how inferior to the angels, [34].
• Martyrdom, [194].
• Mass, sacrifice of the, [134].
• Mediator, Christ a, [137];
  • of the new covenant, [302].
• Melchizedek, [75], [79], [88], [106], [113], [135], [156].
• Mercy-seat, the, [154].
• Merivale, Dean, Romans under the Empire, [96], [196].
• Messiah, David’s Lord, [114].
• Messianic, the eighth Psalm, [35].
• Midian, purpose of Moses’ sojourn in, [253].
• Minister of the Sanctuary, Christ the, [133], [169].
• Ministering to the saints, [192], [313].
• Miracles, [30] sq., [306].
• Missionary brethren, [315].
• Monotheist, Melchizedek a, [118].
• Moral instincts, [205].
• Mosaic dispensation created by Christ, [51].
• Moses, [32];
  • a steward of Christ, [54];
  • inferior to Christ, [55];
  • faith of, [233];
  • mission of, [236];
  • inner life of, [237];
  • comeliness of, [239];
  • Stephen’s account of, [245];
  • fear of, [300].
• Mythology, [148].