1 FEBRUARY 1896, Page 24

Old Testament Ethics. By W. S. Bruce, M.L. (T. and

T. Clark.) —There is much good sense in this treatise. Mr. Bruce deals fsirly with the questions which he handles, and does not evade the difficulties. On the main principles of his argument we are in agreement with him ; here and there we find ourselves com- pelled to part company. Could it have been, for instance, the direct command of God to the Israelites to exterminate the tribes of Canaan, as direct a command as the commands of the Decalogue? Did the injunction to slay man, woman, and child, rest on the same ethical basis as the command to do no murder, not to commit adultery ?