peculiar to the Evangelists or to our Lord. The other New Testament writers continually use it. Thus St Paul, writing to the Hebrews, finds the proof of the fact, that “Christ who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one,” in the words “Behold, I and the children which God hath given me;”1 words which, when we turn to the place in Scripture where they occur, appear to be an utterance of Isaiah of old, in reference to the children whom God had given him for signs in Israel.2 Similar