(Col. 4:4; Rom. 16:26; 1 Tim. 3:16); lalein (1 Cor. 2:7;14:2); legein

(1 Cor. 15:51)'.

The reader will realize that comments like this cannot fail to be of

service.  Of course we do not mean to say that all Lightfoot's comments are

of the same value.  In the very context of the above, he regards the Mystery

as the free admission of the Gentiles on equal terms to the privileges of the

covenant, a doctrine which we totally reject.  If we made Dispensational

Truth our standard, we should approach the position of the man who said to

his wife `They're all queer except me and thee, and I have my doubts of thee

too', and we should reduce our list of recommended books down to about a

dozen, and even then might have some qualms!

At the close of the Volume on Colossians is a very valuable

dissertation on the Essenes, whose principles seem to be in view in the great

warning of Colossians 2.

Neither of the Lightfoots was a writer of `light' literature, but they

often threw light upon the meaning of Scripture for which every student

should be grateful.  It may be that every workman would not find the earlier

Lightfoot's works a tool that came readily to his hand, and we would not

advise any one paying the usual bookseller's price for them.  If, however,

they should come across one's path at a reasonable figure, the above notes

may enable the reader to seize the opportunity of possessing them.  Bishop

Lightfoot's works are too well known to be found in such ways, and fairly

full prices would have to be paid for second hand copies.

To those who value the Epistles of Paul, as every reader of this

Analysis must, any work that sheds light upon his character and his times,

will always command attention and interest.

The work of Conybeare and Howson naturally comes to mind in this

connection, and their book entitled The Life and Epistles of St. Paul needs

no commendation.  Howson is responsible for the Historic and Geographical

section, and Conybeare for the translation of the Epistles and speeches of

Paul.  The following extract is a suggestive character sketch of the apostle,

based upon his own statements.

`Here we see that fearless independence with which he "withstood Peter

to the face"; -- that impetuosity which breaks out in his apostrophe to

the "foolish Galatians"; -- that earnest indignation which bids his

converts "beware of dogs, beware of the concision", and pours itself

forth in the emphatic "God forbid" which meets every Antinomian

suggestion; -- that fervid patriotism which makes him "wish that he was

himself accursed from Christ for his brethren, his kinsmen according to

the flesh, who are Israelites"; -- that generosity which looked for no

other reward than "to preach the glad tidings of Christ without charge"

and made him feel that he would rather die, than that any should make

his glorying void; that dread of officious interference which led him

to shrink from "building on another man's foundation"; -- that delicacy

which shows itself in his appeal to Philemon, whom he might have

commanded, "yet for love's sake rather beseeching him, being such an

one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ", and

which is even more striking in some of his farewell greetings, as (for

instance) when he bids the Romans "salute Rufus, and his mother, who is