The New Testament for English Readers. By Doan Alford. Vol
L Part L The Three First Gospels. (Rivingtons.)—The position of the Dean of Canterbury among interpreters of Scripture was determined by his edition of the Greek Testament, and it will be sufficient for us to point out the peculiarities of this work. It is a reprint of the author- ized version ; all such renderings as seem to the author to be faulty being printed in italics and the correction given below, between the text and the notes. These last form a copious commentary, intended to put an English reader, who has received an ordinary liberal education but has no knowledge of the classical languages, in possession of the results of moderncriticism. 1:lis general principles seem to be-1. That the writers of the Scriptures were planarily inspired, i.e., were full of the Holy Spirit, and that the writings are the results of that inspiration. 2. That our views of inspiration must be deduced entirely from the evi- dence furnished by the Scriptures themselves, and that that evidence is not compatible with the theory of verbal inspiration. Dr. Alford, we are bound to add, always seems to us to wish to arrive at truth, and to be free from the besetting sin of Biblical critics of the verbal school— the habit of explaining away discrepancies in the sacred text by mere subterfuges.
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