...will he be pleased with thee, or aeeept thy pel-son ? saith the Lord of hosts. (bj Heb. 2. 2, 3. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedienee reeeived a just reeompenee of reward : How shall we eseape if we negleet so great salvation...

...on earth. This remark the Apostle had before made more than once in this same Epistle. Heb. ii. 2. " The word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward." chap. x. 28. " He that despised Moses' law died without mercy, under two or...

...temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own ? How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation ; which at...began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him ; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with...

...angels, and his speaking to us by his Son : If the word spoken by angels was stedfast—how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation ; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord ? So that either we must understand, first, that God himself, in a strict sense, spake the words, which...

...and to reject the greatest Blessingsthatever were bestowed on Mankind. How shall Men escape, if they neglect so great Salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed by them that heard him? Besides, our Saviour hath plainly declared, That he that £elieveth not shall...

...demonstration of the Spirit and power." See also 1 Thess. i. 5, 6, and Heb. ii. 3, 4. " How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the * Quod. Clar. Lat. Vulg. Syr. - Hieron. Fulgentius ariaaro-foij, Ji« airoj-oAcov tc^fv^ei;, tiers...

...jussit; laid down his glory, that he might familiarly teach us our duty in order to our happiness : " And if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first, began...

...than to shew the greatness of the salvation itself: for he adds, immediately after our text, that this salvation, *" which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, fl was confirmed unto us by them that heard him ; '{ God also bearing them witness, both with signs...

...than the word of an angel. The Apostle saith (Heb. ii.), " If the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received...so great salvation which at the first began to be preached by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him ?" God saith, by the prophet...

...by his Son." Again, chap. ii. 2, 3 : " If the word spoken by angels was stedfast, &c. ; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord ?" What can be more evident than that the writer of this epistle had no idea of God having spoken to...