13 JANUARY 1933, Page 18

CHRIST AND THE MONEY:CHANGERS [To the Editor of TiiE SencrAxon.r .

Snt;—On p.8 in The Spectator of January 6th, PrOfCSSOTZIRIHICTH writes that he 'agrees that the Founder of Christianity ", used force against the moneychangers." This unfortunately suggests the almost universal impression that the "whip of small cords " (John II,' 15) was applied to their backs and not simply to " both the'- sheep and oxen." Though he did'. overthrow their tables and spill their money neither they' nor the sellers of doves were handled. personally.. Force+ indeed was used, but of a kind poles apart from the spirit of ' warfare between man and .man. It forms a remarkably unstable prop for bolstering. up the assertion that. Jesus was an approver of modern war.—I am, Sir, &c.,