Readings on the Book of Hebrews

IT is a great thing to know why a book was written; to be able to see why God sets forth His mind in the way He does in it. So it is well to read a book through before forming a judgment on it; for, from an isolated passage, it is impossible to get at the bearing of it. You may for instance read: " Woe unto them that rise up early," and stop there. The context is therefore the best explanation to what it is in connection with.
The book of Hebrews was written to Jewish converts, to show them how superior Christianity is to Judaism, though Judaism in itself was a good thing-was of God. None of us ought to have needed Hebrews, but, as Christianity has dropped down into Judaism, it is necessary for us to read it; we may be very like the Jews, but we have no right to be. How far above and superior to anything that ever was before it, is the Christian position!