The Expositor. Series VI., Vol. VII. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s.
6d.)—This is a particularly good volume, rich in articles of interest. Perhaps the most important is Dr. J. H. Moulton's "Notes from the Papyri." These discoveries have given us a glimpse into a region almost unknown, the business and colloquial language of the period preceding and following the beginning of the Christian era. Dr. Moulton is specially concerned with the bearing of these discoveries on the criticism and exegesis of the New Testament. The general tendency is against the destructive school. Some sensitive critic, for instance, objects to the Epistle to Philemon, and to tho incident on which it is founded, because, as he says, Onesimus is a fictitious name. In the papyri we have the slave name xpicriao: (useful), and Z1,110'410; (profitable) also. Other articles are "The Objective Aspect of the Lord's Supper," by Dr. H. R. Mackintosh, a remarkable paper on F. D. Maurice by Miss Julia Wedgwood, and a skit on the "Higher Critics" by Archbishop Alexander. Mr. F. W. Mozley states a case for the sacrificial sense of Toii-ro WO4aTf. His chief point appears to be that it is a Hebraism. He does not touch what seems to us one great argument against : the want of dignity in using such a term, highly technical as it is, on such an occasion.
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