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Acts and Hebrews W. WlLEMAN T HERE are two books in the New Testament that do not bear the sig natures of the human writers: the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the He brews. The Acts of the Apostles contains the record of the operations of the Holy Spirit during the thirty-three years fol lowing the Lord’s ascension; and in that book the Holy Spirit is distinctly men tioned fifty-three times. It is, therefore, singularly appropriate that the penman should suggest his identity without ap pending his signature. It is a matter of common knowledge to every Bible student that in the Epistle to the Hebrews the Holy Spirit is men tioned seven times. But in three of these seven places the Holy Spirit expressly lays claim to be the Divine Author of the Old Testament Scriptures. Though writ ten “at sundry times and in divers man ners,” and by many penmen, He is the writer. (Continued on page 179.)
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