CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools the Epistle to the Romans. Edited by Horace C. G. Moule, M.A. (The University Press, Cam- bridge.)—Mr. Monle is what may be called a " high " Calvinist. He does not, indeed, hold "reprobation," and praises St. Augustine for avoiding the tenet, but he holds what is logically indistinguishable from it. And he has quite the boldness of his school in dealing with difficulties. In v., 13,—" For until the law sin was in the world : but sin is not imputed when there is no law,"—we are told that the first " law " is the Mosaic law ; the second, the will of God in general. And in v., 18, " The free gift came upon all men unto justification of life," that " all men " must be taken "with a limit, meaning all who are connected with the second Adam,—all ' his brethren.'" This latter -comment reminds us of the " high " divine, now or until lately a beneficed clergyman, who is or was wont to substitute the " elect" for the "world " in such passages as, ",I came not to con- demn the world, but to save the world." No discreet teacher would give his boys the flontans to study ; if he should do so, let him hesi. tate about taking Mr. Motile as his guide. But to the mature reader, the book may be most confidently recommended. He will have his
reserve about the theology, but he will find it an admirably careful and complete commentary, avoiding no difficulties, tracing out dis- tinctly the sequences of thought, and expressing in perspicuous lan- guage what St. Paul meant, or, at least, what a learned and intelli- gent critic believed him to have meant.
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