there is a beautiful figure of speech employed in the closing verses of the 6th chapter of Hebrews, that is often lost sight of, for lack of knowing that the word rendered "Forerunner" was frequently used by the Greeks as a nautical term.

Most of the Grecian harbors were separated from the sea by a dangerous bar. At low tide a large vessel could not pass over this bar, but it was customary to send over a rowboat called "the forerunner," which bore the anchor of the ship into the harbor, and there dropped it. Outside, the large boat might be tossing on the billows, but the anchor held inside the bar, and when the tide rose the vessel was drawn over the obstruction into the smooth and safe waters of the bay. So, writes the apostle, though we may now be exposed to storm and danger, we have strong consolation " who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the Forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." H. A. I.