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the maps of Affghanlstau, Sclnde, Indian Isles, 

 American Isthmus, &c. 



On inquiry at all our shops here for a mode- 

 rately priced map of the new railway across South 

 America to Panama, and for maps of California 

 and Borneo, not one could be got. 



Have any of your cliart-wrights in London got 

 up such maps for youth and emigrants ? If not, 

 let them take the hint now given by 



Pateefamilije. 



Edinburgh. 



cauctif^. 



BID ST. PAUL QDOTB ARISTOTLE ? 



Throughout the writings of St. Paul, his exactly 

 cultivated mind is scarcely less visible than his 

 divinely inspired soul. Notwithstanding his mag- 

 nificent rebukes of human learning and philosophy, 

 and his sublime exaltation of the foolishness of 

 God above the wisdom of men, the Apostle of the 

 Gentiles was no mean master of Gentile learning. 

 His three well-known quotations fi'om Greek poets 

 furnish direct evidence of his acquaintance with 

 Greek literature. He proclaimed the fatherhood 

 of God to the Athenians in the words of his coun- 

 tryman the poet Aratus (Acts, xvii. 28.). He 

 v^arns the Corinthians by a moral common-place 

 borrowed from the dramatist Menander (I Cor. 

 XV. 33.). He brings an hexameter verse of a 

 Cretan poet as a testimony to the bad character 

 of the Cretan people (Titus, i. 12.). I do not 

 positively assert that I have discovered a fourth 

 quotation ; I would merely inquire whether the 

 appearance in a Pauline epistle of a sentence 

 which occurs in a treatise of Aristotle, is to be 

 regarded as a quotation, or as an accidental and 

 most singular identity of expression. In the 

 Politics (lib. III. cap. 8.), Aristotle, in speaking of 

 very powerful members of a community, says, 

 " Kara Se rwv toiovtuv ovk ecrri vo/xos (" but against 

 such there is no law"). In the Epistle to the 

 Galatians (v. 23.)y Paul, after enumerating the 

 fruits of the Spirit, adds, " against such there is 

 no law" (icara raiu roiovrav ovk effrt yofxas ). The 

 very same words which the philosopher uses to 

 express the exceptional character of certain over- 

 powerful citizens, the apostle borrows, or, at least, 

 employs, to signify the transcendent nature of 

 divine graces. According to Aristotle, mighty in- 

 dividuals are above legal restraint, against such 

 the <feneral laws of a state do not avail : according 

 to Paul, the fruits of the Spirit are too glorious 

 and d;,vine for legal restraint ; they dwell in a 

 region far above the regulation of the moral law. 



While there is no possibility of demonstrating 

 that this identity of expression is a quotation, 

 there is nothing to forbid the idea of this sen- 

 tence being a loan from the philosopher to the 

 apostle. Paul was as likely to be at home in the 



great philosophers, as in the second and third-rate 

 poets of Greece. The circumstance of Aratus 

 being of his own birth-place, Tarsus, might spe- 

 cially commend the Phcenoniena to his perusal ; 

 but the great luminary of Grecian science was 

 much more likely to fall within his perusal than 

 an obscure versifier of Crete ; and if he thought it 

 not unseemly to quote from a comic writer, he 

 surely would not disdain to borrow a sentence 

 from the mighty master of Stagira. The very 

 difitirent employment which he and Aristotle find 

 for the same words makes nothing against the 

 probability of quotation. The sentence is re- 

 markable, not in form, but in meaning. There 

 is nothing in the mere expression peculiarly to 

 commend it to the memory, or give it proverbiid 

 currency. I cannot say that it is a quotation ; 

 I cannot say that it is not. 



I atn not aware that this quotation or identity 

 of expression has been pointed out before. Wel- 

 stein, who above all editors of the Greek Testa- 

 ment abounds in illustrations and parallel pas- 

 sages from the classics, takes no notice of this 

 identical one. It is surely worth the iioting ; and 

 should anything occur to any of your correspond- 

 ents either to confirm or demolish the idea of 

 quotation, I would gladly be delivered out of my 

 doubt. I should not think less reverently of St. 

 Paul in believing him indebted to Aristotle ; I 

 should rather rejoice in being assured that one of 

 the greatest spiritual benefactors of mankind -was 

 acquainted with one of its chief intellectual bene- 

 factors. Thomas H. Gill. 



Silver Royal Font. — I remember having read of 

 a very ancient silver font, long preserved among 

 the treasures of the British crown, in which the 

 infants of our royal families were commonly bap- 

 tized. Is this relic still in existence ? where may 

 it be seen ? what is its history ? have any cuts or 

 engravings of it been published ? where may any 

 particulars respecting it be found ? Nocab. 



V Homme de 1400 Ans. — In that very extra- 

 ordinary part of a very extraordinary transaction, 

 the statement of Cagliostro, in the matter of the 

 Collier (Paris, 1786, pp. 20. 36.), mention is twice 

 made of an imaginary personage called Thomme 

 de 1400 ans. Cagliostro complains that he was 

 said to be that personage, or the Wandering 

 Jew, or Antichrist. He is not, therefore, the same 

 as the Wandering Jew. I should be very curious 

 to learn where this notion is derived from. C. B. 



Llandudno, on the Great Orme's Head. — Having 

 occasion to visit the above interesting place last 

 summer, among other objects of curiosity, I was 

 induced to visit a " cavern," which the inhabitants 

 said had been lately discovered, and which they 



