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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt:...2 Tim. iv. 18; Heb. xiii. 21; 1 Pet. iv. 11, v. 11: 2 Pet. iii. 18; Jude 25; Apoc. i. 6, v. 13, vii. 12) see Westcott, Hebrews, p. 464; Bingham, xiv. 2. 1; Hooker, Ecd. Pol. v. 42. 7. Glory is given to God "through Christ " in three (Rom. xvi. 27; 1 Pet. iv. 11; Jude 25; so also in Clem. Rom. lviii.). In later times this became an Arian watchword; see Basil, de S. S. i. 3; Socrates, i. 21; Theodoret, ii. 23. otik 85 jo. The collocation of the words is rightly considered by Hofmann and von Soden to show that the doxology is addressed to Christ, as are those in 2 Tim. iv. 18; 2 Pet. iii. 18; Apoc. i. 6. It is hardly to be supposed that any serious writer would lay himself open to misunderstanding on so grave a point, when by merely throwing back the words Sia 'lyo-ov Xpia-rov he could have prevented all possibility of mistake. The same remark will apply to Heb. xiii. 20, 21. The Christian doxologies, except that in 2 Pet. iii. 18 (for the Jewish form see i. 3), end with Amen. Our Lord used this word, in a manner peculiar to Himself, to affirm His own utterances, not those of another person; and this usage was adopted by the Church. See Dal man, Worle Jesu, p. 185. Dr. Chase says that the addition of Amen marks the formula as liturgical, The Lord's Prayer in the Early Church, p. 170. 12. (IT) ei-ie(r8e... is i, lvoi ujue 7U(j.paicoTOS. "Be not amazed by the fiery trial in your midst, since it is sent to prove you, as though some amazing thing were happening to you." IIiyxDo-is is used Apoc. xviii. 9, 18, of the conflagration which devours Babylon. Here, however, the allusion is to the fire by which gold is tested, and the word is probably taken from Prov. xxvii. 21, Soki/xwv apyvptio Koa xpucrui 7n, 'puxns: cf....