Handbook for Bible Students

Habakkuk

Key-word, “Faith;” Key-verse, 2:4.-This is the prophet of faith. He has a vision of the coming judgment of Judah by the Chaldean invasion, but a more important vision of justification by faith. His name, “Embrace,” expresses the clinging trust that lays hold on God, and in his poem the central word and thought is faith, in its vital relation to righteousness and life’s trials and triumphs. The prayer with which this book closes touches the summit of the sublime. [p. 81] HBS 41.2