The examples of Paronomasia* are suggestive.  For example `God shall

enlarge Japheth' (Gen. 9:27) is in the original a play on the name Japheth,

`God yapht le yepheth'.  About 140 references are given under this heading.

*

In the series entitled `In all thy getting get understanding' in The

Berean Expositor, we deal with `Figures of Speech', and take the opportunity

here of recommending to the earnest student Dr. Bullinger's great work

Figures of Speech used in the Bible.

Another work of somewhat different character, is the Triglot Dictionary

of Scriptural Representative Words, in Hebrew, Greek and English, by Henry

Browne, M.D. Lond. 1901.

The reader should be warned at the commencement that the writer of this

book has attempted an impossible task.  He endeavoured to find one English

word to represent one Hebrew and one Greek word in every case.  This

difficulty became evident to the author when he was faced with the fact that

Greek words are often compounded with prepositions, and quoting from a

friendly critic he says:

`The use of prepositions in composition, which enriches the Greek

language to so large an extent, is absolutely wanting in Hebrew'.

Not only so, but all who have attempted to fix one English word for one

Greek word have found it to be impossible.  How much more difficult then to

fix one English word to represent both the Hebrew and the Greek!  With this

note of warning, we nevertheless commend the work for its suggestive

treatment, and we are sure its use will be beneficial.  It is a work of over

500 pages, and should not be passed if it is offered at a reasonable price.

The student of the Scriptures would be well advised to acquaint himself

with the life and work of Sir W. M. Ramsay.  Among those works of first

importance we place A Historical Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the

The reader who uses books merely for dipping into, for odds and ends,

for notes and outlines, will find Ramsay's books of little value, but he who

so loves the Word that he is willing to plough through pages of hard reading

and archaeological research, will emerge with a conception of the epistle to

the Galatians that will more than compensate his pains.

Ramsay divides his book into two parts.

Historical introduction.  Society and Religion in Central Asia

Minor in the time of St. Paul.

Historical Commentary.

The book contains a splendid map, which sets out the boundaries of the

Roman Province of Galatia as distinct from the smaller kingdom of Galatia,

and shows that Antioch, Lystra, Iconium and Derbe are all `cities of

Galatia'.  The importance of this discovery on the `placing' of the epistle

to the Galatians is not realized until one has attempted the work upon the