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passage from the book of Job (xxviii, 1-12), which, of all the Old Testa- 

 ment writings, needed the most thorough revision. Against Cheyne be 

 shows that the Cyrus inscription, and the statements contained in Isaiah 

 xliv, 28, and xlv, 1-J3, do not really contradict each other. Cyrus may 

 have treated Bel, and Nebo, and Merodach with the greatest courtesy, 

 and yet have sent the Jews back as a wise piece of policy. 



James D. Dana discussed the cosmogony of Genesis in reply to Canon 

 Driver (Defense and Critique, Andov. Rev., 1887). He fiivors the stand 

 taken by Guyot, and holds that the fiats of Genesis did not produce 

 completed results, but initiated slowly developing processes. 



T. G. Dashiel maintains that the Old Testament teaches practically 

 the doctrine of eternal existence. 



Samuel Davidson. Notes on the Psalms: ii, 12; iv, 3; vi, 2; viii, 2; 

 xii, 7; xvi, 3, render: as to the saints who are in the land and the no- 

 bles, ail my pleasure is in them; xviii; xix; xxii, 17; xxv, 11; xxix, 2; 

 xxxii, 9, With bit and bridle their youth mast be bound; they do not 

 come near thee otherwise; xxxvi, 13; xxxvii, 38; xxxix, 3; xlii, 5; xlv; 

 xlviii, 3; li ; liii ; Iv; Ivi ; Ivii; Iviii, 2; Ix, G; Ixiv, 7; Ixv, C; Ixvi ; 

 Ixviii; Ixix; Ixx ; Ixxii ; Ixxiii, 4; Ixxiv, 19; Ixxvi, 5, and Ixxvii, 11, 

 17-20. 



W. N. Davis characterized the Chokmah or Hebrew philosophy. It 

 dates its development from the age of Solomon. It differs from the 

 Greek philosophy in taking for granted the existence of an omniscient, 

 omnipotent, and omnipresent God. Hebrew wisdom is inseparable 

 from morals; wisdom and right living are synonomous terms. The 

 best specimens of the Chokmah are found in Ecclesiastes and Job. In 

 discussing Job xix, 25-7, he holds there is no evidence that the word 

 "redeemer," used in Job xix, 25, can be applied to Christ, "the 

 Redeemer." The word Gael used here is avenger, blood relative. He 

 explains what a Goel is aiul translates verse 25. "I know that my Goel 

 lives and my vindicator will arise upon the earth ; (26) and after my 

 sin is thus destroyed, and without my flesh (body) I shall see God." 



Marcus Dod's edition of the Book of Genesis belongs to the series 

 called " The Expositor's Bible." 



G. C. M, Douglas reviews The prophecies of Imiah, by T. K. Cheyne; 

 and Isaiah, his life, and times, and tvritimjs, by S. K. Driver. Douglas 

 does not agree with the position of either Cheyne or Driver, and gives 

 his reason at length ; there is nothing to justify us in disbelieving the 

 universal and unbroken tradition which attributes them to Isaiah, the 

 alleged reasons being misconceptions. 



J. F. Genung discussed the interpretation of the Book of Job. Many 

 of its difficulties are due less to original fault than to crude interpreta- 

 tion of them. The so-called debate-theory, with its assumed main sub- 

 ject, "the mystery of God's providential government of men," does not 

 result in an exposition so homogeneous as we could wish ; it does not 

 reach the heart of the book. The i)roblein of the book is doth Job fear 

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