LESSONS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.*
Tars new and revised edition of Canon Glazebrook's well-known
work would have been published in 1915 had it not been for the War. But the delay has not been without advantage ; for important books on the Old Testament have appeared during the interval, and the Lessons have been brought up to date. The experience of thirty years has proved their value.
The text of the new edition is that of the Revised Version ; the omission of unessential matter has made room for larger selections from the prophets and for passages from the Mecca- baean history which forms a bridge between the Old Testament and the New. The commentary has been almost entirely rewritten, and embodies the results of recent investigation ; the notes on each Lesson are introduced by a short essay, discussing some of the larger questions—religious, ethical, historical or literary—which arise out of the text :-
"Both in selecting the text and in writing the commentary, the editor has desired to emphasize the fact that the Old Testa- ment is the history of a progressive revelation. He has .drawn attention to the different levels of belief and practice which appear in the records of different periods ; and he hopes that he may thereby save many a young reader from the moral confusion that was caused by the old view (not yet quite obsolete) which assigned an.equal authority to all parts of the Scriptures."
Indispensable to the teacher, the work is one which should be in the hands of every intelligent student of the Bible. Tho disparagement of the Old Testament, common among ignorant people, can only be remedied by an acquaintance with the treasures which it contains. Criticism has enhanced their value : Jerusalem est sortie plus brillante et plus belle du travail en apparence destructeur de la science moderne. Even more than the New, it is the Book of Human Nature ; and in both, as
our Article reminds us, " everlasting life is offered to Mankind in Christ."
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