SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have Not been reserved for review in other forms.]
The Expository Times. Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Vol. XVIII., October, 1906—September, 1907. (T. and T. Clark. 7s. 6d.)—This is as valuable and interesting a volume as usual. A reader of this journal is kept up in the knowledge of theology and Biblical research as it is developed from month to month. There are some who from tho necessity of the case, the pressure of other occupations, &c., must be content with this. Any one who desires to follow up any subject will find a Most useful guide in these pages. The best books that deal with it are criticised, comments which are always sound and suggestive being supplied. One of the many subjects discussed is the Pauline authorship of the Pastoral Epistles. Here a reaction in fat-our of conservative views is taking place. There is a specially instruttive analysis of the vocabulary. It is pointed out that a large proportion of the peculiar viords are to be found either in the Septuagint or in classical authors. It is only a word that was not used at all, or not used in a similar sense till a later time, that really tells in the case. It may be urged, however, that some of the matter has a non-Pauline look. There is something like monarchical episcopacy, and there are apparent teferences to Gnosticism. Did St. Paul write the comment on Epimenides' bitter satire on the Cretans : "This witness is true" ? Dr. Rendel Harris will have it that the Cretana were not liars. The one lie they told, in the judgment of the ancient world, Was that they could show the tomb of Zeus. That would net be a lie in the eyes of Christians. So when a certain con- fessor was bidden to sacrifice to Jupiter, he asked : "To the one whose tomb they show in Crete ? Has he risen front the dead ? "
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