ANGLO-JEWISH CALENDAR.
Anglo-Jewish Calendar for Every Day in. ,the Gospels. By Matthew Power, S.J. (Sands and Co. 2s. 6d.)—The result of the author's elaborate investigation of the Jewish Calendar is that be fixes the Crucifixion for the year 31, that the ministry of our Lord began A.D. 29 (some time before April), and that it lasted for a little more than two years. Our author takes this period day by day, assigning each part of it to the locality where he conceives Christ to have laboured. The subject is far too technical to be discussed in this place; we have no criticism to make on the book except that in one place the author seems to go out of his way to scoff at the Revised Version. Where TeastoStua (St. Luke xiii. 30) is rendered "I am perfected" Father Power remarks, "Perhaps the most grotesque translation in the whole of the Revised Ver- sion." He would have it" end." Now TEXeto;uut never means "end" simply. Liddell and Scott quote a passage from Eusebius referring to the death of Helena (the mother of Constantine), but even here the word means much more. "Was taken to her reward" would be a fair paraphrase. The Vulgate has consunvinor, the very same word that it uses in translating Heb.-ii. 10, ail waengarcav reAfied•wat. Father Power allows that the Vulgate is" misleading." It is absolutely at one with the Revised Version. He has made a grave mistake, both in scholarship and in taste.
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