Christ's Resurrection and Ours ; or, I. Corinthians XV. Expounded..
By R. Govett. (Maclehose, Glasgow.)—This book is one proof more that the vice of literalness is as yet very far from being eradicated. In. a lengthened exegesis of L Cor. xv., the writer proposes to confute the errors of Spiritists and Swedenborgians on the subject of the resurrec- tion of the body. Is he justified in accusing the " early Quakers" of holding opinions similar to those of these later sects ? We do not remember (though we cannot affirm the contrary) that either Fox or- Barclay dogmatised on this subject. There is little that is forcible hz this writer's interpretation of St. Paul, or very valuable in the many- amendments of translation which he proposes. Thus the suggestion of " dusty " for " earthy," in the verso, " The first man is of the earth,. earthy," is a rendering probably not more accurate, and certainly- quaintly infelicitous..
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