5 JANUARY 1901, Page 15

THE SEA IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.

[To THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—I hope the " shrinkage of the world" has made sufficient progress to allow a reference from Australia to the

admirable article in the Spectator of October Gth on " The Sea in the New Testament," by F. T. Bullen, to reach your columns in time. I wonder if Mr. Bullen when he wrote, "No man who knew the sea could have written as one of the blissful conditions of the

renewed heaven and earth that there should be no more sea,' " called to remembrance the words of the one fisherman's wife who said :- " Strangest of all the promises Writ in the Book to me Is, that on the shores of Paradise There shall be no more sea."

Or of the other fishermen's wife who explained the passage thus :—" It means, there shall be no more parting from the