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LT.-COL. G. MACKINLAY^ ON 



before the Institute a paper of transcendent merit and attractiveness 

 — one that dealt with his own confirmation of the discovery, among 

 the memorial tablets of Caesar's household, of four names of worthies 

 mentioned in the inspired epistles, and with his own discovery of a 

 fifth, and which he accompanied with reproductions of the same 

 that he was the first to make for an English audience — the worthies 

 being Amplias, Tryphoena, Tryphosa, Julia and Epaphras. " Colonel 

 Mackinlay's paper," continued Mr. Rouse, " was a delightful 

 surprise. I in no wise expected that such a train of important 

 triplets could be found in Luke ; and especially pleasing are the 

 triplets found in Acts that contrast with, and as it were, make good 

 those in Luke's Grospel. John, too, has triplets in his Gospel — three 

 statements made by Pilate of Jesus' innocence, three attempts by 

 him to deliver Jesus, three sayings of Jesus on the cross, and three 

 confessions of love elicited by the Lord from Peter corresponding to 

 his three denials. But I know of no other in John's Gospel, nor of 

 any at all in Matthew's or Mark's ; and they certainly have none in 

 the story of the crucifixion. The symmetries shown between 

 Luke's Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles in this regard, as now 

 brought out so strikingly by Colonel Mackinlay, are another proof 

 that both the Gospel and the Book of the Acts were written by the 

 same hand, as the writer of the latter distinctly says that they were. 

 The only outside proof that I had hitherto known (and I have 

 thoroughly confirmed it by looking right through Tischendorf's 

 various readings) was this : — Outside Luke's Gospel and the Book 

 of the Acts all texts but B (the Codex Vaticanus) practically always 

 spell 'I(oavv7]<; with two z^s, B spelling it with one v throughout 

 the New Testament. Yet throughout Luke's Gospel and the Acts 

 D (the Codex Bezae) spells the name with one v. This shows that 

 the scribe who made the copy D in the sixth century had before him 

 the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts bound together as one 

 book apart from the other Gospels. 



Remarks by Rev. J. J. B. Coles : In seconding the vote of thanks 

 to the Chairman of Council, may I say how well it is for us to bear 

 in mind that the Victoria Institute was founded for investigating 

 in a reverent spirit important questions of philosophy and science 

 bearing upon Holy Scripture. 



At the close of the excellent Annual Address we have just listened 



