The Expositor. • Edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll,
LL.D. Seventh Series, Vol. IV. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. fid. net.)— The volume begins with an excellent paper by Principal Garvie on "The Risen Lord." He takes what we may briefly describe as the "objective" view,—the view certainly taken by the New Testament writers, and not to be explained away by difficulties in the details of the narrative. The "New Theology" is dealt with, indirectly in "Pantheism," and "The Relation of God to the World" (Principal Iverach), and directly in Dr. Newton H. Marshall's" Philosophical Method of the New Theology." The Fourth Gospel is the subject of several papers. Mr. F. R. M. Hitchcock writes "The Baptist and the Fourth Gospel," urging that St. John had been an esoteric disciple of the great preacher of the wilderness. That seems very likely. But does it not increase the likelihood that the Apostle puts into the mouth of his old teacher utterances which were really inspired by a later knowledge ? Mr. Hitchcock himself speaks of the "afterlight of the Revelation of the Word." " Taketh away the sin of the world" is the difficulty. Could any study of Isaiah have brought this vast conception to him who was "less than the least" in the kingdom of God? Was not this world redemption the mystery which was not revealed till the great sacrifice of the Cross had been completed? Mr. A. Carr contributes an able paper on "The Authenticity and Originality" of the First Gospel. He thinks that it contains the preaching of St. Matthew in Jerusalem. We do not see what, he thinks of the relation between Matthew and Mark. The details of the Second Gospel remain unaccounted for.
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