AN UNKNOWN PROPHET OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "sencricron.1 SIR,—I have just read the article in the Spectator of October 25th entitled "An Unknown Prophet of the New Testament." It is a pity that the writer of such an excellent article should have fallen into the too-common English error of speaking of all Old Testament worthies as Jews or Jewish. The heroes of faith enumerated in chap. xi. of Hebrews he styles "Jewish heroes." That roll of honour includes the names of sixteen persons (counting Joshua, who, though not named, is indicated in the reference to the fall of Jericho) not one of whom was a Jew in any sense of the word. In fact, David is the only one of the whole list, with the exception, of coarse, of some of "the prophets" not mentioned by name, who could with any show of propriety be described as "Jewish." Now, Sir, although this sort of thing may pass in the pulpit, where we have grown so much accustomed to it, we expect something different in the Spectator, which should set British theologians a much-needed example of decent accuracy in matters of Hebrew literature.—I am,
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