THE

BIBLIOTHECA SACRA

edited by

EDWARDS A. PARK,

with the co-operation of

GEORGE E. DAY, ARCHIBALD DUFF, Jr., D. W. SIMON, S. I. CURTISS, and G. FREDERICK WRIGHT

Volume 40

JANUARY, NUMBER 157

APRIL, NUMBER 158

JULY, NUMBER 159

OCTOBER, NUMBER 160

ANDOVER:

PUBLISHED BY WARREN F. DRAPER

london: trübner and company

1883

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by

WARREN F. DRAPER,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington

CONTENTS

I. PROPOSED RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PENTATEUCH By Rev. Edwin C. Bissell, D.D., Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature in the Theol. Inst., Hartford, Ct.

II. THE CONCEPTION ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ IN THE NEW TESTAMENT By Prof. E. Benj. Andrews, Brown University

III. POSITIVISM AS A WORKING SYSTEM By Rev. F. H. Johnson, Andover, Mass.

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The Success of Confucianism

Government by Education

A Comparison

Confucianism has Developed the Lower Virtues

Failures of Confucianism—Humanity

Purity

Truthfulness

Conclusion

IV. THE ARGUMENT FROM CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE FOR THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE By Rev. Frank H. Foster, Dr. Phil., Professor in Middlebury College

Preliminary Remarks

The Proofs

Objections

Remarks

V. ON SOME TEXTUAL QUESTIONS IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN By Henry Hayman, D.D., Ex-Head-Master of Rugby School

VI. THE SCHOOL-LIFE OF WALAFRTED STRABO Translated By Prof. James Davie Butler, Ph.D., Madison, Wis.

VII. SOME NOTES ON RECENT CATACOMB RESEARCH AND ITS LITERATURE By Rev. Professor Scott, Chicago Theological Seminary

VIII. RECENT GERMAN THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE, AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

IX. NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Müller, Outlines of Hebrew Syntax

Wickes, Treatise on the Accentuation of the Poetical Books of the Old Testament

Davidson, Doctrine of Last Things

Ladd, The Principles of Church Polity

Rhys Davids, The Hibbert Lectures, 1881

McCosh, The Laws of Discursive Thought

Jackson, Seneca and Kant

Phelps, Austin, My Portfolio

Weidner, Commentary on the Gospel of Mark

Schaff (ed.), The International Revision Commentary of the New Testament

Spalding, Lectures and Discourses

Crummell, The Greatness of Christ

Stewart, The Gospel of Law

Spurgeon, Morning by Morning, and Evening by Evening

Moon, The Revisers’ English

Schaff, History of the Christian Church

Schaff (ed.), A Religious Encyclopaedia

Hagenbach, History of Christian Doctrines

Ebel, Faith Victorious

I. CERTAIN LEGAL ANALOGIES By Rev. Francis Wharton, LL.D., Professor in the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Mass.

Proof strengthened by Time

Verbal Inspiration

Authority prima facie, not absolute

Prayer

II. THE PROPOSED RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PENTATEUCH By Prof. Edwin C. Bissell, Hartford, Ct.

ii. the law and the prophets, or the prophets and the law?

III. THE POSITION AND CHARACTER OF THE AMERICAN CLERGY By Rev. Charles F. Thwing, Cambridge, Mass.

IV. POSITIVISM AS A WORKING SYSTEM By Rev. F. H. Johnson, Andover, Mass.

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Arrested Development

Causes of Arrested Development

The Result of a well-known Process

The Chinese ...