THB DELATIONS BETWEEN SCIENCK AND RELIGION, ETC. 2«Sl 



the Synoptic Problem" (1911), edited by Canon Sanday, and 

 containing papers by eminent scholars, statements that the parts 

 of St. Luke's Gospel which resemble Matthew rather than Luke, 

 constitute great and lesser "Interpolations," while one of the 

 writers generally refers to these parts as " Insertions/' Surely only 

 one term should be applied by all. Mr. Maunder and the Eev. Sir 

 John Hawkins have demonstrated, on good grounds, that the word 

 " Interpolation " is unsuitable and misleading. It should therefore 

 be abandoned for this purpose, or confusion and misapprehension 

 will arise. 



The man of science is careful about coming to conclusions from 

 mere negative evidence. Not so, however, some biblical students. 

 For instance, a few years ago certain writers suggested that the title, 

 " rulers of the city " (Acts xvii, 6, 8), was coined by the author of 

 Acts, as the word was not to be found elsewhere. But in recent 

 years this very word has been discovered, cut in an inscription, 

 amid the ruins of Thessalonica itself ! 



Moreover, others have questioned the historicit}^ of St. Luke on 

 similar grounds. Writing in 1903, Professor Percy Gardner 

 doubted the accuracy of this Evangelist's reference to the census 

 under Cy renins, because, he said : " No instance is known to us in 

 antiquity ^ — in w^hich the citizens of a country migrated to the 

 ancestral home of the family in order to be enrolled." True, at the 

 time Gardner wrote, no such instance was known, but some four- 

 years afterwards Kenyon and Bell found an old order in Egpyt, 

 dated A.D. 104, commanding all persons living at a distance to 

 return to their homes for the then-approaching census. The 

 analogy is obvious. 



Professor E. Hull, F.K.S. : 1 wish to express thanks to the Dean 

 for his admirable Essay, which I read before hearing it. I think one 

 elfect of it is to establish the right of the Victoria Institute to its 

 second name, " Philosophical Society of Great Britain." I venture 

 to say that a more philosophical paper has never been produced 

 before any audience at present in existence. I have much pleasure 

 in moving a vote of thanks to the Dean of Canterbury for the 

 paper just read. 



Mr. E. Walter Maunder, F.E.A.S. : It is with great pleasure 

 that I rise to second the motion. I do not feel at all competent to 



