The Early Eucharist. By W. B. Frankland, M.A. (C. J.
Clay and Sons. 6s. net.)—Mr. Frankland has published in this volume, with some change, an essay which obtained the Hulsean Prize in 1900. He has put together the passages which bear on the subject,—(1) from the New Testament ; (2) from the sub-Apostolic writers (Clement of Rome, Ignatius, the Epistola Smyrnaeorum, the epitaph of Avircius, and the Didache, with a quotation from Pliny to Trajan) ; and (3) Justin Martyr and Irenaeus. We cannot discuss the subject in its entirety, nor, indeed, considering the very wide range of thought and expression which may fairly be allowed in dealing with it, are we disposed to criticise Mr. Frank- land's views. On one point, however, in the interests of truth, we feel bound to enter an objection. "To scholars," writes Mr. Frankland, "the Lord's language, Tole' ro Toseirs, has a sacrificial ring, and at the least the words are patient of a sacrificial sense." We are convinced that to the vast majority of scholars the words convey no such impression. There is no instance of the word woteir being so used without an object of kindred meaning. It would hardly be too much to say that whatever the doctrine of the Eucharist may be, TO;TO aroteere has nothing, and can have nothing, sacrificial in it. The generality of the object makes it impossible.
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