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sketch. The justification of the anthropomorphisms, 

 and the particularism of the prophets by reference to their 

 place in the divine preparation of mankind for the gospel, 

 is particularly instructive. Readers who are repelled by 

 the heavy style of German writers, and who are tempted 

 to take the extreme position of Kuenen as typical of 

 current criticism, may with much profit turn to the pages 

 of Reuss, who, though in no sense allied to the conservative 

 theology, and by no means the most orthodox of critics, 

 gives a very different picture of prophecy from the Dutch 

 scholar, and one much more representative. I remark, 

 in closing, that Professor Reuss seems to lay too great 

 weight on the notion of discipleship, as implied in the 

 expression, &quot; Sons of the prophets.&quot; Though this is the 

 current view, it is almost certainly false. Throughout 

 the Semitic languages son means simply member of a 

 college or corporation. (See G. Hoffmann s Festschrift; 

 Kiel, 1873. Note 72.) 



English evangelical literature has, as usual, been 

 enriched by several translations from the German. In 

 the American series of Lange s Bibelwerk there have 

 appeared vol. ii. &quot; Exodus and Leviticus &quot; ; vol. vii. 

 &quot; Chronicles, Esra, Nehemiah, and Esther &quot; ; vol. xiii. 

 &quot; Ezekiel and Daniel.&quot; Lange s not very satisfactory 

 commentary on Exodus is sometimes usefully corrected 

 and supplemented by notes of Dr. Mead, the translator. 

 For Leviticus we receive not a translation of Lange, but 

 the incorporation of a large part of his material with an 

 independent commentary by Dr. Gardiner a rather 

 clumsy arrangement for the reader, whose comfort, indeed, 

 is little consulted in this series. Professor Murphy s 

 notes on Zockler s &quot; Chronicles &quot; are mainly directed to 

 meet anything that appears a concession to the critical 

 school. In the additional note on Ophir, p. 185, it would 

 have been well to add a reference to Sprenger s Alte 

 Geographic Ar aliens (Bern, 1875), where there is an 

 important excursus on the subject. With the translation 



