Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges : St. Mark's
Gospel. By the Rev. G. F. Maclear. (The University Press.)—It is scarcely necessary to say more than that Dr. Maclear's contribution to this excellent series is worthy of its predecessors. His annotation is, perhaps, more didactic and more apologetic than we should expect in a book intended for educational purposes ; but there is little with which the reader into whose hands the book is likely to fall will disagree, and nothing to offend. On the other hand, it is satisfactorily full, nor would it have been easy to compress without injuring it. In the criticism of the text, Dr. Maclear seems to us very successful in hitting the just mean. The detailed knowledge of manuscripts and reading which it is sometimes the practice to impose upon lads at school seems to us quite out of place. It is fitted only for advanced students. Nevertheless, all intelligent readers of the New Testament should be acquainted with the outlines of the subject. These are exactly what Dr. Maclear gives us in this volume. In the series of the " Cambridge Bible for Schools," from the same publishers (in this series the English text is given), we have The Epistle to the Hebrews, edited by Canon Farrar. We may specially recommend to readers the able contrast which the editor draws, in his introduction, between the view of the Mosaic Law as it is developed in the Epistles of St. Paul and as it is set forth in this Epistle. This tells strongly against the Pauline authorship, the particular arguments on this subject being given later on. The annotation, as far as we have examined it, seems full of interest and valve.
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