In the recent debate between Professors Schürer and Zöckler, as the representatives in Germany of liberal and conservative theology, the charge was brought by the former against some commentaries of this series, and especially against those prepared by Zöckler himself, that the results of modern exegesis had been disregarded in the interest of orthodoxy. This charge, whether just or unjust in the case referred to, is certainly not applicable to the work lying before us. Apart from the reverential