the lessons of the prophets, whose memories were at length honoured, been more laid to heart. 2. Such, in bare outline, is the picture which the Bible presents of the course of the history of revelation in Israel. This picture, it is well known, undergoes entire transformation at the hands of modern critical scholarship. The real course of events, it is held by many modern scholars, is nearly the precise reverse of that just described. The law, in the new scheme, comes in at the end, instead of at