district, appears incidentally from the narrative.a It would, indeed, have been strange had it been otherwise. There was much in the popular habits of thought, as well as in the office and privileges of the Priesthood, if worthily represented, to invest it with a veneration which the aggressive claims of Rabbinism could not wholly monopolise. And in this instance Zacharias and Elisabeth, his wife, were truly ‘righteous,’1 in the sense of walking, so far as man could judge, ‘blamelessly,’ alike