5 OCTOBER 1918, Page 14

ST. JOHN .vni. 44.

[To rue EDITOR OF EILE " SucuToa."3

Brie—Surely the rendering of sal 6 Tarim) .airrog liven by the candidates in the Honours School cannot have been accidental with all of them. I have long known of it as a possible tran5la- tion. If it is right, may not the words be an Oriental figure emphasizing the falseness of the devil ? It is possible, however, that, as the margin of the R.V. suggests, the preceding erav XaXij Ifruidos hr ray Won) XaAel refers not to the devil, but to the wicked, who are children of the devil. See v. 44. Then everything is simple enough. The ordinary translation, "and the father of it," is a very unnatural rendering of the Greek.—I am, Sir, he.,