lis, p. 19, London, 1699) "censiures that are made from stile and language alone," and which, he adds, " are com- monly nice and uncertain, and depend upon slender no- tices." Apart, however, from such minute niceties, there are certain marked jieculiarities of style which attach to particular writers, and flow so directly from the charac- ter of their geniius or education that they can hardly express themselves in discourse without introducing them. Now such pecidiarities the wTitings of Paid pre- sent, and the occurrence of them has always been felt to afford no small evidence of the authenticity of any pro- duction claiming to be his in which they are found. Paley, in enumerating these (llorm Paiilirue, ch. vi. No. 2, 3)," has laid stress chiefly on the following: A tlisposi- tion to the frequent use of a word, which cleaves, as it were, to the memory of the wTiter, so as to become a sort of cant word in his writings ; a propensity " to go off" at a word," and enter upon a parenthetic series of remarks suggested by that word ; and a fondness for the parono- masia, or play upon words. (4.) There is a striking analogy between Paul's use of the O. T. and that made by the ^mter of this epistle. Both make frequent ap- peals to the O. T. ; both are in the habit of accumula- ting passages from different parts of the O. T., and mak- ing" them bear on the point under discussion (comp. Rom. iii, 10-18; ix, 7-33, etc. ; Heb. i, 5-14; iii; x,5-17); both are fond of linking quotations together by means of the expression " and again" (compare Rom. xv, 9-12 ; 1 Cor. iii, 19, 20; Heb.i,5; ii, 12,13; iv,4; x, 30) ; both make use of the same passages, and that occasionally in a sense not naturallv suggested by the context whence they are quoted (1 Cor. xv, 27 ; Eph. i, 22 ; Heb. ii, 8 ; Rom. i, 17 ; Gal. iii, 11 ; Heb. x, 38) ; and both, in one instance, quote a passage in a peculiar way (comp. Rom. xii, 19; Heb. X, 30). On the other hand, great stress has been laid by the opponents of the Pauline origin of this epistle on the fact that whilst Paul, in his acknowledged writings, quotes from the Hebrew original in preference to the Sept., where the latter tliffers from the former, the au- thor of this epistle quotes exclusively from the Sept., even when it departs very widely from the Hebrew. To this it may be replied, fst. That both Paid and the au- thor of this epistle quote generally from the Sept. ; 2dly, That where the Sept. differs from the Hebrew, Paul does not always foUow the Hebrew in preference to the Sept. (comp. Rom. ii, 24; x, 11-18; xi,27; xv,12; lCor.i,19, etc.) ; and, 3cUy, That the writer of this epistle does not always follow "the Sept. where it differs from the He- brew, but occasionally deserts the former for the latter (e. g. X, 30; xiii, 5); (comp. Davidson, Introd. iii, 231). There is no ground, therefore, for this objection to the Paidine origin of this epistle. (5.) The Epistle to the Hebrews contains some personal allusions on the part of the^vriter which strongly favor the supposition that he was Paul. These are the mention of his intention to pav those to whom he was writing a visit speedily, in company with Timothy, whom he affectionately styles " our brother," and whom he describes as having been set at liberty, and expected soon to join the writer (Heb. xiii, 23) ; the allusion to his being in a state of impris- onment at the time of writing, as weU as of his having partaken of their sj-mpathy while formerly in a state of bondage among them (Heb. xiii, 19 ; x, 34) ; and the transmission to them of a salutation from the believers in Italv (Heb. xiii, 24), all of wWch agree weU with the supposition that Paul wrote this epistle whUe a prisoner at Rome.
ii. Let us now glance at the main objections which from various sources have been urged against its Paidme origin. (1.) It is unaccountable that Paul, had he ^^^lt- ten this epistle, shoidd have withheld his name. But is it less unaccountable that Clement, or ApoUos, or Luke, had any of them been the author, should have withheld his name? (2.) " This epistle is more calmly and log- icallv^\Titten than it was possible for the energetic Pau^ to hkve ^N-ritten; all the analogies between Judaism and Christianity are calmly investigated and calmly ad-
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