fire upon the tabernacle, or glory of the resident God between the cherubim, could rank with these gifts of the Holy Ghost? Yet St. Paul here tells those who enjoyed them of something far more desirable—of something so important that, though a man possessed them all at once, without that greater blessing he were nothing better than “a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.” The Jews had many strange traditions about the wonderful wisdom and transcendent endowments of their rabbins, sages and seers.