24 FEBRUARY 1877, Page 15

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Your correspondent "J.

E. S." has dug for himself two rather unnecessary pitfalls Nobody quoted "from the Greek to prove that our Lord's words were not 'short.'" (1.) Our Lord's words were not in question. The sayer of the saying was a "nobleman" (l3ccomes4), who not improbably had Greek at command. (2.) The Greek was quoted simply to show that the Bishop made a careless slip in assuming, on the mere strength of an English version, that this nobleman's earnest words were short words.—I- am, Sir, &a, All Saints' Green, Norwich, February 20. ALEX. GORDON.