like this. The writer has been called “an austere moralist,” who has some terribly severe things to say about those who make loud professions of faith, but live lives which are sadly out of harmony with their professions. In his second chapter he rings the changes with unwearied pertinacity on the thesis, “Faith without works is dead.” It seems fairly evident that the writer is a Jewish Christian, a man who is deeply rooted in the ancient Jewish faith, but who calls men to obey the old God-given