entitled, "A History of the Jewish People Réville. . A. Réville, Jésus de Alten Testaments, ed. Keim (i.-vi.) Eng. tr. of Geschichte Jesu von Nazara. Neutestamentliche Studien SPT. . Syr-Sin.. (1866), by J. C. M. TU Laurent. Literarisches Centralblatt (ed. E. Zarncke). Meyer's Commentar zum New Testament Theo logy ThA. Nazareth: études critiques sur les antécédents de l'histoire évangélique et la vie de Jésus (1897, deux tomes). Prof. E. de W. Burton, Records and Letters of the Apostolic Age (1895). Real-Encyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche (ed. Hauck) 1896Sitzungsberichte der königlich preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Studien und Kritiken (ed. Köstlin and Kautzsch). Prof. W. M. Ramsay, St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen (1895). The Four Gospels translated from the Syriac of the Sinaitic palimpsest (Lewis, 1894). The other abbreviations employed throughout the volume are either obvious or familiar. In addition to what has been already said, however, upon the types employed in the translation (p. xxi), the reader is requested to observe that where OT quotations occur in the body of an earlier source (e.g. pp. 189, 295), they are always printed in italics, as elsewhere throughout the volume, although they must in these cases be strictly regarded as part and parcel of the darker type which forms their immediate context. Also, in Tables IV.-V. the straight lines represent more or less direct literary filiation, while mere affinities or indirect influences are marked by means of dotted lines. It may be said of all that is told of Jesus Christ, that it is written as a lesson for us. That is a consideration which in our controversies is often unduly overlooked; but it is in keeping with the object of the oldest writers, and the practice of the oldest teachers. In matters of religious tradition it is the peculiarity of much that passes for historical, that the spiritual meaning to be found in it is its most important feature. Where something is maintained as an historical fact, it is more often than not a defence of the article of faith bound up with it.—Harnack. Just as the mind which comes to the New Testament has grown historical, it has become more historical to the mind, i.e. the mind has been able to discover a more historical character in the literature.-A. M. Fairbairn. Criticism is part of historical exegesis. Criticism is the effort of exegesis to be historical. The effort can never be more than partially successful. But though there may be many failures, the idea of historical exegesis is valuable, because it gives us the right idea of Scripture, which is the reflection of the presence of the living God in human history.-A. B. Davidson. |