Scriptures. Some of the most obvious of these references are the following: i. 10, see Ps. cit. 4-11; ai) 21, 8εὲ6 Gen: xxii: 9-12) 11. 28, see Isa. xli. 8, 2 Chron. xx. 7; ii. 25, see Josh. ii. 1 ff.; 11. 6, see Prov. xvi. 27; iii. 9, see Gen. i. 26; iv. 6, see Job xxii. 29; v. 2, see Job xiii. 28; v. 11, see Job i. 21-22, ii. 10; v. 17-18, see 1 Kings xvii. 1, xviii. 41-45. Further, there is the use of the specifically Israelite name for God, ‘“‘Jehovah Sabaoth” (v. 4), and the refer- ences to Law (Torah) in 11. 8-12, iv. 11; this use of νόμος, 1.6., without the article, is in accordance with the extended use of the word Torah among the Jews, meaning as it does, not only the Law siven on Mount Sinai, not only the whole of the Pentateuch, but also the entire body of religious precepts in general (see especially ii. 12, where right speaking and acting in general are included under proper Torah-observance). The reference to γέεννα in ΠΠ. 6, is also a distinct mark of Jewish authorship ; and the way in which the prophets are spoken of in v. 10 points in the same direction. It is to be observed that the use of the O.T. is wide, all three of the great divisions of the Jewish Canon—Law, Prophets, and Writings— being represented.
But what speaks still more for Jewish authorship is the accumu- lation of many small points indicative of Hebrew methods of thought, expression, and phraseology ; examples of this abound in the Epistle, indeed its “Hebraic” colouring is one of its most pronounced characteristics, While it will not be necessary to give exhaustive lists, some examples of the different categories of the small points just referred to must be offered.
(i.) There are a number of instances in which the Greek is reminiscent of Hebrew phraseology ; it is not meant by this to imply that a Hebrew text was the original form of such passages and phrases, but only that the Greek form of the expression of thought seems to be moulded from a Hebrew pattern, z.e., that the mind of the writer was accustomed to express itself after the manner of one to whom Hebrew ways of thinking were very familiar, and who in writing Greek, therefore, almost unconsciously reverted to the Hebrew mode. The point of what has been said will perhaps be best realised when it is seen how naturally, in a number of instances, a Hebrew equivalent of the Greek suggests itself, e.g. ;
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