Jerusalem, the first centre of Christianity,440.
Jerusalem Targum,207.
Jesus. SeeChrist.
Jews,their preparation for Christ's advent,114;their institutions typical of Christ as well as preparatory,146.
Job, book of,its plan,280;design,282;age of Job and of the book,283;question of its authorship,283;its historic character,284.
Joel, book of,334.
John the apostle, notices of,436, seq.
John's gospel,its later composition,53;437;sources,438;peculiarity in respect to matter,438, seq.;general scope and special office,418,439.
John's epistles,the first epistle,93,497, seq.;the second and third,500.
John the Presbyter,503.
Jonah, book of,338.
Jonathan, Targum of,207.
Josephus,his account of the Old Testament canon,195,197;testimony to the book of Daniel,325;account of the feast of Purim,263.
Joshua, book of,its office and contents,241;age and authorship,243;authenticity and credibility,244.
Joshua the high-priest, as a type of Christ,590.
Judaizing teachers,448;in Galatia,459;among the Colossians,463;of the Pastoral Epistles,477.
Jude, Epistle of,501, seq.
Judges of the Old Testament, their character and office,245.
Judges, book of,245, seq.;its chronology,247.
K.
Kephalaia,375.
Keys of the kingdom of heaven,575.
Kingdom of Israel,its establishment,249;division,254;extinction of the kingdom of the ten tribes,254.
Kingdom of Judah,its origin,254;its extinction,255.
Kingly office, typical of Christ,118,249,582.
Kings, books of,originally one,252,their contents and office,252;chronology,255.
L.
Lamentations of Jeremiah,314;peculiar structure of the book,315.
Laodiceans, epistle to the,465.
Last days, meaning of the term,608;prophecies concerning,611, seq.
Law. SeePentateuch.
Lectionaries,378.
Leviticus, book of,meaning of the word,235;its contents,235, seq.
Limitations in the interpretation of languages,542.
Luke the Evangelist,his origin and relation to Paul,431;his sources of information,432;his identity with the author of the Acts of the Apostles,440.
Luke's gospel,its date,432;plan and character,433;peculiar matter,434;its integrity,435;its genealogy of our Lord,433,435.
Lyons and Vienne, letter of the churches of,40,88,503.
M.
Maccabees, family of,359;origin of the name,360.
Maccabees, apocryphal books of,360, seq.
Malachi, book of,348.
Manasses, apocryphal prayer of,359.
Manuscripts, ancient mode of writing,60,172,373,382.
Manuscripts of the Old Testament,their age and form,180;synagogue rolls,181.
Manuscripts of the New Testament,their early multiplication,64;noted manuscripts, Vatican,384;Sinai,385;Alexandrine,385, seq.;Ephraem,386,Dublin palimpsest,387;Beza's,387, seq.;purple,388;cursive manuscripts,388.
Manuscripts of the old Latin,402;of the vulgate,404.
Manuscript of the Gothic version called the Silver manuscript,408.
Marcion and his gospel,49,435.
Mark the Evangelist,notices of,427;his relation to Peter and Paul,427, seq.;in what sense he was Peter's interpreter,428.
Mark's gospel,place, time of writing, and language,428;its design,429;its peculiarities,430;question respecting its closing passage,430, seq.
Maschil,287.
Masora and Masoretic text,178, seq.
Mattathias,359.
Matthew the Evangelist,420.
Matthew's gospel,its original language,421;present Greek form,422;primary design,424;characteristics,425;chronology,426;place and time of writing,426;integrity,426;its genealogy of our Lord,424,435.
Meat-offerings,600.
Melchizedek, his person and typical character,583.
Memphitic version,407.
Messiah. SeeChrist.
Messianic Psalms, different principles of interpretation,that of exclusive reference to Christ,620;that of an ideal personage,620, seq.;the typical view,621.
Metaphor,551.
Metonymy,551.
Micah, book of,340.
Michtam,287.
Mosaic economy,Christ its end,118;its preparatory character,138;objections to it considered,138,571;its spirit was love,139, seq.
Mottoes, remarks respecting,533
Muratorian canon,48,89,93,398, etc.
Myths, remarks concerning,556,560.
N.
Nahum, Prophecy of,341.
Nathan's writings,251.
Nazarenes, their gospel,422.
Nebuchadnezzar, his expeditions to Judea,327.
Neginah and Neginoth,287.
Nehemiah, his work in the restoration,261.
Nehemiah, book of,261, seq.
Nehiloth,287.
New Jerusalem of Ezekiel's vision,321,627.
Nineveh. SeeNahum.
Nitrian desert, Syriac manuscripts from,405.
Numbers, book of,237.
Numbers, symbolical,508,564,610.
O.
Obadiah, Prophecy of,338.
Oblations, or unbloody offerings,600.
Old Latin. Seeversions, Latin.
Onkelos, Targum of,206.
Origen,his account of the Old Testament canon,197;of the New Testament canon,398;his Hexapla,205.See further under the several New Testament books.
P.
Paley's Horæ Paulinæ,94.
Palimpsests,60,384;examples of,386.
Pantænus,40.
Papias,44. See also under the several books of the New Testament.
Papyrus,59; rolls of,384.
Parables,553;their interpretation,560, seq.
Paragraph Bibles,378.
Parallelisms,211,534;real and verbal,534;doctrinal and historic,535, seq.
Parallelisms, poetic,274, seq.
Parchments,59, seq.
Parshiyoth,173.
Particular Introduction, its province214.
Passover, its sacrificial and typical character,599.
Pastoral epistles,92;their place in Paul's history,475, seq.;character of the false teachers described in them,477;their genuineness and peculial tone,478
Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles,and his peculiar qualifications,447;his style,448;three missionary journeys,449.
Pauline epistles,446;commentaries on them,449;their connection with Paul's history contained in the Acts,449;principle of their arrangement, and groups into which they fall,450.
Pentateuch,meaning of the term,120;its admitted existence from Ezra's time,120;its authorship,120, seq.;relation of Deuteronomy to the preceding books,126,239;of Genesis to the following,130,225; unity of its plan,132,224;its authenticity,134, seq.;the Jewish polity presupposes it,135;difficulties connected with it,137, seq.;its preparatory office,141;constitutes a Jewish division of the Old Testament,169.
Personal reign of Christ, question concerning the,629, seq.
Personification,551.
Peshito. SeeSyriac versions.
Peter,his leadership among the apostles,441;in what sense a rock,575.
Peter, first epistle of,491.
Peter, second epistle of,493;question of its genuineness,494, seq.;its design,497.
Philemon, Epistle to,469.
Philoxenian. SeeSyriac versions.
Philippi and the Philippian church,469.
Philippians, Epistle to the,date, occasion, and place of writing,469;contents and peculiar character,470.
Phoenician language,175.
Plan of redemption,its unity and progress,614;its foreshadowings,616;its end,617.
Poetry, Hebrew,its characteristics,266, seq.;its outward form,274, seq.;its diction,278;its offices,279.
Poetical books, so-called Hebrew,169,265.
Polycarp,46.
Polycarp, epistle of,515.
Pothinus,40.
Priesthood of our Lord,485.
Priesthood, Levitical,typical of Christ,119,236;points of agreement specified, a common human nature, appointment by God,mediatorship between God and the people through propitiatory sacrifice,594, seq.;points of disagreement incident to the type,595, seq.;central idea of priesthood,596.
Priesthood of Melchizedek,583, seq.
Priestly garments,596.
Prophecy,interpretation of,607, seq.;its progressive fulfilment,622;question of its literal and figurative meaning,624, seq.;its representative use of Old Testament history and institutions,624.
Prophecies,specific,607;generic,608;with the succession of events,609;without it,611;their inward view of God's kingdom,613, seq.
Prophetical books and their office,143, seq.
Prophetical office, typical of Christ,118,582.
Prophets, Hebrew, their office and character,294, seq.
Prophets,as a Jewish division of the Old Testament canon,169;greater prophets,169,294;less or minor,169,332;Masoretic and Septuagint arrangement of,332.
Proverbs,555.
Proverbs, book of,its office,288;outward form and divisions,289;arrangement in its present form,290.
Psalms, book of,its character and office,284;fivefold division,285, seq.;titles,286, seq;Messianic psalms,619.
Psalms, alleged Maccabean,196.
Psalters, Gallican and Roman,400,403.
Pseudo-Jonathan, Targum of,207.
Ptolemy Philadelphus, his agency in respect to the Septuagint version,199.
Punic language,175.
Purple manuscript,388.
Purim, feast of,263.
Q.
Quotations of the early fathers,37.
Quotations from the Old Testament in the New,their use in sacred criticism,211;authority,632;outward form,633;free spirit,635;principle of accommodation considered,635;quotations for argument,637;of Old Testament prophecies referring to Christ—directly,638;in a typical way,638.See further underSeptuagint.
Quotations from the Old Testament in the Talmud and Rabbinic writers,211, seq.
R.
Rabbinic writers,211, seq.
Rabbinic mode of writing,176.
Reason, its office in interpretation,544.
Restoration of the Jews, question concerning the,628.
Resurrection of Jesus,70.
Resurrection, first and second,630.
Revelation,its unity,33,566,568;diversity,566, seq.;each particular revelation perfect in its place,571;the later revelations interpret the earlier,572.
Revelation, book of. SeeApocalypse.
Ritual types,585, seq.
Romans and Roman church,451.
Romans, Epistle to the,its date and place of writing,451;occasion and contents,452;office,453.
Ruth, book of,248;supplementary to the history of David's family.248.
S.
Sacrifices,typical of Christ,591, seq.;their essential character,597, seq.;Mosaic classification of them, sin-offerings and trespass-offerings,598;burnt-offerings,598;peace-offerings,599;sacrificial victims,600.
Sahidic version,407.
Salome,436.
Samaritans,their language,175;their Pentateuch and its version,181,208.
Samuel, he establishes the school of the prophets and the kingly office,249.
Samuel, books of,their original unity,248;contents, office, and divisions,249, seq.;age and sources,251.
Sanctuary, Mosaic,its general idea,585;structure, divisions, and furniture,586, seq.;typical character,587, seq.
Saul,250.
Scape-goat,603.
Scope,defined,528;its primary importance,529;how ascertained,530.
Scriptio continua,172,373.
Sense, distinguished from signification,528.
Sense of Scripture,its extent,573;the clearer statements of Scripture interpret the more obscure,574.
Selah,287.