SO THE VEN. ARCHDEACON W. MACDONALD SINCLAIR, D.D., ON 
COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED. 
The Rev. F. A. Waker, D.D., F.L.S., writes :— 
In reference to Archdeacon Sinclair’s paper, ‘“‘ On the Being of 
God,” one cannot refrain from paying a well-deserved tribute to 
the deep spirit of devotion and reverence which breathes through- 
out, to the profoundness of thought by which it is characterized, to 
the wide research displayed by the author; and the knowledge 
which he exhibits of writers, sacred and profane, of prose as well 
as of poetry, of ancient as also of modern times. He has ably 
enlisted in his service quotations from the Pantheist and the 
Agnostic; he has fortified and established his arguments by 
adducing passages from philosophers who can hardly be regarded 
as upholders of Revelation. Of him, in fine, it may indeed be 
said that since, in the exercise of his sacred office, he became a 
dignitary of the cathedral church of our great city, in other 
words, 
Eze: “Ipo/ns ispov mo\eOpov crepoev 
, 
7Oo\Nav avOpwrwv voov eyvw. 
I note that Rev. c. iv, v. 1], is quoted, and in respect of the 
clause, ‘‘ For Thy pleasure they are, and were created,’’—probably 
a more literal, and at the same time more correct, rendering of 
the original Greek than the one given in our Authorized Version 
would be. ‘ Through (or by reason of) Thy will they exist and 
were created.’ Certain superficial readers and students of Holy 
Writ may otherwise fall into the error of imagining that the 
words mean ‘‘They are created, and were created.” It may be 
objected that few are likely to be guilty of such a transparent 
blunder, but if it should be made, it gives colour to the theory of 
what has been termed ‘‘the subsequent Creation,” and which, I 
contend, can neither be proved from the pages of Scripture, nor 
by the researches of modern scientists. On the other hand, the 
accurate translation, “ By reason of Thy will they exist,” is simply 
tantamount in signification to the declaration of another Apostle 
on Areiopagus, ‘‘ In Him we live, and move, and have our being.” 
But further, in the words that immediately follow St. John, v. 17, 
is also quoted, ‘““My Father worketh hitherto.” Now the only 
logical interpretation possible of these words is that the work of 
