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Since he considered God was able to raise up even from the dead : And from the dead (in a symbol) he did receive him back. 20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, And bowed over the top of his staff in worship.

22 By faith Joseph at his death made mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel,

And gave charge concerning his bones.

23 By faith Moses after birth was hid for three months by his parents,

Because they saw he was a comely child;

And they feared not the mandate of the king.

24 By faith, when Moses had grown up, he refused to be called the son of a daughter of Pharaoh,

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Preferring maltreatment with the people of God to the enjoyment of sin for a time;

Since he reckoned the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt—

For he was looking to the recompense of reward.

27 By faith he left Egypt, through no fear of the king's rage:

For he bore up as one who saw Him who is invisible.

28 By faith he observed the passover and the sprinkling of blood, So that the destroyer might not touch their first-born.

29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea as on dry land,

Which the Egyptians attempted to do and were swallowed up.

30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell,

After being surrounded for seven days.

31 By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish along with the disobedient,
Because she had received the spies in peace.
And what more am I to say?

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The time will fail me if I narrate

About Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah,

About David and Samuel and the prophets :

Who through faith subdued realms, wrought upright deeds, obtained promises,

Stopped the jaws of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword,

Out of weakness became strong, waxed mighty in war, routed armies of foreigners.

35 Women received their dead by a resurrection;

Others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept their release,

That they might obtain a better resurrection.

36 Others had experience of many a scoff and scourge,

Aye of fetters and imprisonment:

37 They were stoned,1 sawn asunder, slain with the sword,

They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins,

Destitute, distressed, maltreated

38 (Of whom the world was not worthy),

Wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes of the

earth.

39 And though all these had witness borne them through their faith, Yet they obtained not the promise:

40 Since God had something better in view for us,

That apart from us they should not be made perfect.

1 Omitting ἐπειράσθησαν.

12 1 Therefore as we have round us so great a cloud of witnesses,

Let us too put away every encumbrance and the sin that clings so close,

And let us run patiently the course set before us,

2 Looking to Jesus the leader and perfecter of the faith,

Who for the joy set before him endured the cross, despising the shame,
And is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

3 Yes, consider him who has endured such opposition from men who were sinners against themselves,1

That you may not grow wearied and faint in your souls.

4 You have not yet resisted to blood in your struggle against sin:

5 And you have forgotten the appeal—one that reasons with you as with

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sons

My son, regard not the Lord's chastening lightly,

Nor faint, when reproved by him;

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens,

And scourges every son whom he receives.

7 It is for chastening that you endure. God is dealing with you as with

sons;

For what son is there whom his father does not chasten?

8 If you are without chastening, in which all come to partake,

Then you are bastards, and not sons.

9 Furthermore, we used to have the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and them we reverenced:

Shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and so live ?

10 For while they chastened us after their good pleasure for a few days, He chastens for our profit, that we may partake of his holiness.

11 For the moment indeed, all chastening seems to be matter not of joy but of sorrow;

Yet afterwards it yields peaceable fruit to those who have been trained by it, fruit of uprightness.

12, 13 Therefore lift up the nerveless hands and the paralysed knees, and make even tracks for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated but 14 rather cured. Aim at peace with all men, and at that sanctification 15 without which no one shall see the Lord; watchful lest anyone be falling short of the grace of God-lest any bitter root spring up to vex 16 you, and the many be defiled by it; lest there be any fornicator or worldly person like Esau, who for a single meal sold his own birth-right. 17 For you know that even when he afterwards desired to inherit the blessing, though he sought for it with tears, he was rejected-for he got no chance of repentance.

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For you have not drawn near to a fire that is felt and flaming, and to 19 blackness and to darkness and to storm and to the sound of trumpet and to the sound of words (at which the hearers begged to have not a word more 20 added, for they could not bear the charge: If even a beast touch the 21 mountain, it shall be stoned)—and so dreadful was the appearance that 22 Moses said, "I am frightened and terrified." Nay, you have drawn near to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, 23 and to thousands of angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first-born registered in the heavens, and to the God of all, as judge, and 24 to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, mediator of a fresh covenant, and to that blood of sprinkling which speaks better than Abel's. 1 Reading ἑαυτοὺς.

25 See that you refuse not him who speaks:

For if they did not escape,

When they refused him who divinely instructed them on earth,
Much less shall we,

Who turn away from him who speaks from the heavens.

26 At that time his voice shook the earth:

But now he has promised, saying,

Once again will I make not only the earth but the sky also to quake. 27 Now this word "once again" points to the removal of what is shaken, as of what has been created, so that what is not shaken may be lasting. 28 Therefore, as we receive a realm that is not to be shaken, let us give thanks, and let us thereby render service that is well-pleasing to God, 29 with reverence and awe. For indeed our God is a consuming fire.

13 1 Let brotherly love continue.

2 Forget not to be hospitable,

For thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

3 Remember those in bonds, as bound with them :

Those who are maltreated, as being also in the body yourselves.

4 Let marriage be honoured among all, and let the bed be undefiled:

For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

5 Let your character be free from the love of money,

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Be content with what you have:

For He has said, "Never will I fail thee, never will I forsake thee";

So that we have confidence to say,

The Lord is my helper, I will not fear.

What shall man do to me?

7 Remember your chief men, those who spoke God's word to you: Look back upon the close of their career, and imitate their faith.

8 Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

9 Be not carried away by doctrines manifold and foreign;

For it is good to have the heart confirmed by grace,

Not by foods, which were of no avail to those who had recourse to them.

10 We have an altar of which they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle.

11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin,

Are burned outside the camp.

12 Therefore, to sanctify the people through his own blood,

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Jesus also suffered outside the gate.

Then let us go out to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.

14 (For we have no lasting city here,

We seek for one which is to come.)

15 Through him then let us offer continually to God a sacrifice of praise,

That is, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.

16 And forget not beneficence and contributions;

For God is well pleased with sacrifices like these.

17 Obey your chief men and be submissive to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls as those who are to render an account. Let them watch thus with joy instead of with grief-that would be to your own loss.

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Pray for us for we are persuaded we have a good conscience, 19 desiring to conduct ourselves aright in all points. And I appeal to you more and more to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. 20 Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of 21 the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus, equip you with all good for obedience to his will, working in us what is wellpleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ-to whom be the honour for ever and ever: Amen.

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Now I appeal to you, brothers, bear with the word of appeal; for 23 indeed I have written to you briefly. Know that our brother Timotheus has been released in company with him I will see you, if he is coming 24 soon. Salute all your chief men, and all the saints. Those of Italy salute you. Grace be with you all.

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LUKE

For the writers of the gospels the religious interest is supreme. Their main concern is not to give scrupulously exact accounts of facts, but to make the moral and religious significance of the facts apparent.

One very marked

feature of this gospel is what may be called the idealisation of the characters of Jesus and the disciples. These are contemplated not in the light of memory, as in Mark, but through the brightly-coloured medium of faith. The evangelist does not forget that the personages of whom he writes are now the risen Lord and the apostles of the church. Jesus appears with an aureole round his head, and the faults of the disciples are very tenderly handled. . . . The author of the third gospel avowedly had a didactic aim. But there is no trace of a dominant theological or controversial aim. He appears to be an eclectic, rather than a man whose mind is dominated by a great ruling idea. Distinct if not conflicting tendencies or religious types find house-room in his pages: Pauline universalism, Jewish particularism, Ebionitic social ideals.

414-511

512-649

7-927 928-50

Nazareth,-Kapharnahum,—the lake of Gennesaret-miracles

and teaching.

Choice of the twelve-"sermon on mount."

Jesus and John-miracles and teaching.

The transfiguration: predictions of the Passion.

951-1927 The ministry outside Galilee: towards Jerusalem.

11-1710

1711-1830

1830-34 1835-1927

Samaria-mission of the Seventy-two:

teaching cycle of sayings on prayer, Satan, signs, current religion, providence, the coming of the Son of man, repentance, the Sabbath.

miracles and parables.

teaching cycle of sayings on 'days of Son of man," prayer,

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humility, etc.

prediction of Passion.

Jericho.

1928-2138 The ministry in Jerusalem:

1928-2047

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entrance-in the temple-discussion and teaching.

the apocalypse of Jesus.

22-23 The Passion of Jesus:

Judas—the supper—-in the garden.

the trial, sentence, crucifixion, and death.

the burial.

24 After death: appearances of Jesus-his charges and departure.