(p) The most received opinion is, that it was written by St. Paul.] This opinion seems to be the most probable. The Epistle to the Hebrews does not belong to St. Barnabas, having a dif∣ferent Title from that of this Apostle. There is no reason to attribute it to S. Luke. The style and the thoughts very much resemble those of St. Clement in his Epistle to the Corinthians: and upon this account I am apt to believe, that we ought to attribute the Composition or Tran∣slation of it rather to him than any other, al∣though it is written in the name of St. Paul, and by that Apostle: for it was written at Rome by a Person that enjoyed his liberty, and who had Timothy for his Collegue. These three Cha∣racters shew plainly, that it was written by St. Paul, who did not put his name to it for fear of offending the Jews, who were prejudi∣ced against him. Grotius believes, that it was written after the taking of Jerusalem, because it is observed, says he, in the third Chapter, that there were certain Christians, who supposed the Day of Judgment was very near; an Opi∣nion that was not common till after Jerusa∣lem was taken, but this is a bare conjecture up∣on weak grounds. St. Jerome answers the usual Objection about the diversity of stile, that is al∣ledged to prove, that this Epistle was not writ∣ten by St. Paul, by saying, that it was occasio∣ned either by him that composed it under St.
A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
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Pa••d, or else by the Interpreter. [But i•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Lowth's Opinion be true, the Controversy must be a•• an end: For in his Vindication of the Authority of the H. Scriptures against the five Letters published by the Answerers of Mr. Simon, p. 24. He says, that St. Peter quotes the 37th Verse of the 10th Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, in the 15th Verse of the 2d Chapter of his 2d Epistle, where he says that St. Paul often said those things which the unlearned and unsta∣ble wrest as well as the other Scriptures to their own destruction.]