13 DECEMBER 1890, Page 24

The last volume of The Pulpit Commentary, edited by the

Very Rev. H. D. M. Spence and the Rev. Joseph Exell (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), is devoted to the "Epistle to the Romans." The " Exposition " is from the pen of the Rev. J. Barmby ; the " Homletics " by Professor Radford Thomson ; while Messrs. C. H. Irwin, T. F. Lockyer, L. B. Aldridge, and R. M. Edgar contribute homilies. " Predestination to salvation is certainly a doctrine of St. Paul, but he nowhere intimates predestination to reprobation." This is a summing-up of the exposition of the famous " election " chapters.