our salvation nearer than when we believed. (12) The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light."

Rom. xvi. 20, "And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen."

1 Cor. iv. 5, "Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God."

Eph. v. 15, "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, (16) Redeeming the time, because the days are evil."

Col. iv. 5, “Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time [ròv kapòv é§ayopatóμevoi, buying off from all inferior pursuits the brief and uncertain opportunity allowed you for doing good]."

Heb, iii. 13, "But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. (14) For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end; (15) While it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation."

Heb. x. 23, “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised: (24) And let us consider one another, to provoke unto love, and to good works: (25) Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Heb. x. 35, "Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. (36) For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye

might receive the promise. (37) For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. (38) Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. (39) But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul."

In v. 37 of the last extract, our version has not preserved the peculiar intensity of the Greek ἔτι μικρὸν ὅσον ooov, "like," says Professor Robinson in his Lexicon, ὅσον, "Engl. yet a very very little while."

2. JAMES.

v. 7, "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. (8) Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh [yyike, hath drawn nigh, is at hand]. (9) Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the Judge standeth before the door."

3. PETER. 1 Pet. i. 3, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, (4) To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, (5) Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. (6) Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: (7) That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise, and honour, and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ: (8) Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory : (9) Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of

your souls. (10) Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: (11) Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. (12) Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you, with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. (13) Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

The Apostle, in vv. 4 and 5, above, represents the inheritance of those whom he is addressing as for the present "reserved," or securely kept for them "in heaven," but as "ready to be revealed," or brought out from this treasure-house, "in the last time," or, as it is afterwards expressed, "at the appearing of Jesus Christ." In v. 6, the Greek translated "for a season is oλiyov, a little while.

1 Pet. iv. 3, "For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: (4) Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: (5) Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. (6) For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. (7) But the end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. ... (12) Beloved, think it not strange, concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing hap

pened unto you. (13) But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy."

1 Pet. v. 1, "The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be [μλλoúons, about to be] revealed: (2) Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; (3) Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. (4) And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. (5) Likewise ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. (6) Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: (7) Casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. (8) Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: (9) Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. (10) But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus after that ye have suffered a while [öλíyov, a little while], make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you."

2 Pet. ii. 1," But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. (2) And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. (3) And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment

now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."

2 Pet. iii. 13, "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (14) Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.”

Acts iii. 19, "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; (20) And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: (21) Whom the heaven must receive, until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets, since the world began. (22) For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you, of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things, whatsoever he shall say unto you. (23) And it shall come to pass, that every soul which will not hear that Prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. (24) Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel, and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days."

The force of this passage is greatly marred by an evident mistranslation. No argument can be needed to show, that ows, in v. 19, does not mean when (a sense of the word which Prof. Robinson, in his Lexicon of the New Testament, nowhere admits, and which even Liddell and Scott, in their full general Lexicon of the language, do not recognize at all with the subjunctive mode), but, according to its familiar use, so that, in order that. The passage would therefore be correctly translated "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, for the blotting out of your sins; so that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send Jesus

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