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cumstances and surroundings of the parties addressed. He then discusses the
cardinal terms, and difficult places, which shed light upon the meaning-in
some instances not dwelling on those which, like Rom. v. I2-2I, have been
the centre of endless discussions of which, if some elucidate, more darken it
with their own " darkness made visible."
Altog,ether it is a help which the student of the Bible should have in
his library.
The same house also have imported, for use in this country, at $3.25, an
edition first issued likewise by the Clarks of Edinburgh, of The Pastoral
Joistlh's; The Greek Text anid Translalion; witih Introduction, Exposito;y NAo/es, and Dissertations. By PATRICK FAIRBAIRN, D.D., whose
prex ious works on "Typology of Scripture," &c., will insure attention to any
new book from him. This volume is characterized by his wonted learning and
judgment, and pertains to a class of Pauline Epistles less frequently made the
subject of special commentary than others, while none are of greater importance to the minister or theological student. It is made up from the author's
preparations for his classes when Professor of Pastoral Theology. While
thoroughly critical and exegetical, like those of Ellicott and Alford, it is also
preominently practical in consequence of the end the author had before him
in its preparation. Hence it becomes a hand-book for young ministers, con taining the divine exhibition of their office, and its due exposition and applica tion to their various occasions and exigencies.
We think there can be no better way of teaching Practical Theology, as
,elated to the ministers and office-bearers of the Christian Church, than in
the proper use of the books of Scripture specially devoted to the subject. We
(bser-xe that the author, commenting on 2 Tim. iv. 5, hits the true concep tion of the office of evangelist, "much the same as a preacher or missionary
of the Gospel, a carrier of good tidings, without, as in the case of a pastor,
being fixed to any definite locality. In the apostolic age, persons recognized
as evangelists seem to have occupied a position between apostles and pastors,
(Ephesians iv. I i),. and to have stood in a certain relation to the former with
regard to the diffusion of the Gospel and the planting of churches. In some
respects, therefore, they were nearest to the apostles, and hadan office
cognate to them. In respect to digaity alone were they inferior." This
closely approaches the view presented by the Rev. S. H. Kellogg, missionary
in India, in our April number.
An Appendix contains able discussions on i Tim. ii. 6-also on the mean ing of "husband and wife," (I Tim. iii. 2,12; Tit.i;6) and on the Scrip tural Treatment of Human Slavery (i Tim. xi. I, Io).
Tze hez,elatioln of 7ohit. Expounded by John Peter Lange, D.D., trans lated from the German by Evelina lMoore, enlarged and edited by E. R.
Craven, D.D., together with a double alphabetical index to all the ten
volumes of the New Testament by John H. Woods, A.MA. 8vo, pp. 446 and
45. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. 18741.
This learned and elaborate volume completes the series upon the New
Testament. Lange stoutly defends the genuineness of the Revelation as a