14 FEBRUARY 1903, Page 15

THE BIBLE ELEMENT IN SHAKESPEARE.

[TO THE Burros OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sia,—The following is not a Bible quotation, though it is a doctrinal allusion not unlike several you have mentioned in your article in the Spectator of February 7th. In Twelfth Night, Act III., Scene 2, Maria says :—" Yond' gull Malvolio is turned heathen, a very renegado : for there is no Christian, that means to be saved by believing rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness." The allusion to justification by faith is obvious.—I am, Sir, &c.,

E. S. R.