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 under Septuagint.

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.  See Apocalypse.

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.