19 DECEMBER 1908, Page 19

ZACCH2EUS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTLT0R.1 SIR,—With reference to your most interesting article on "The Commendations of Christ" in your last issue, may I venture to point out that there is no ground for thinking that ZacchEeus boasted ? Bishop Hall says : "The arch-publican Zacchieus knew that with restitution he must begin his Conversion"; and Jeremy Taylor concurs. The visitation changed Zacchteus ; and he stood and then and there declared

his purpose of amendment. He would bitve used the aorist, too, otherwise.—I am, Sir, &e.,

CORNELIUS WITHERBY.

St. Mary Magdalene, Wandsworth Common.