41. In the ordinances for the cleansing of leprosy, there was one remarkable peculiarity with regard to the manner of the sacrifice?

42. Why were two victims appointed in certain cases of purification? 43. Graves has remarked that the three great feasts of the Jews were all commemorative of the miraculous deliverance from Egypt?

44. The design of the Passover was somewhat different from that of the feast of Tabernacles, when they were considered as memorial festivals of past mercies?

45. In this point of view, the ordinance regarding the offering of the first fruits was peculiarly significant?

46. What day was appointed for observing the feast of Weeks?

47. Does this law decide the question, whether the feast of Pentecost after our Lord's ascension fell on a Lord's day or not?

48. What command was given in the Pentateuch with regard to the mourning of priests ?

49. The omission of this duty, by Divine command, was made a sign to the Israelites on a remarkable occasion in later history?

50. The tribe of Levi was a standing memorial of the miraculous deliverance of the children of Israel from Egypt?

51. Graves has pointed out certain peculiar marks of truth which characterize the miracles of the Pentateuch?

52. On what grounds does he rest the presumption that the last four books of the Pentateuch were really composed by an eye-witness of the events recorded?

53. Various circumstances which it was necessary to notice on the entrance of the Jews into Canaan appear for the first time in the Book of Deuteronomy?

54. The same remark applies to a difference which exists between Exodus and Deuteronomy in the wording of one of the Ten Commandments?

55. The military confederacies of the Midianites and Philistines had one point of resemblance ?

56. The names of the five kings of Midian slain by Moses are mentioned on more than one occasion?

57. Mr. Blunt has pointed out an undesigned coincidence in the Scripture narrative, based on the fact that Balaam is said to have been slain among the Midianites?

58. He has made a similar application of the history of the manner in which Rahab concealed the two spies?

59. What incidental statement of the sacred narrative confirms the account which it gives of the time of year at which the Israelites passed the Jordan?

60. Is any other event in Scripture history, besides the miraculous passage of the Israelites, said to have taken place at the flood-time of Jordan?

61. All the cities of the Canaanites, the capture of which took place

after the victory over the five kings at Makkedah, fell before Joshua at once, with but one exception?

62. Is this fact apparently accounted for by any other passages in Scripture history?

63. On what occasion is a "Covenant of Salt" mentioned in the Pentateuch?

64. This expression appears once again in one of the historical Books? 65. One feature of the desolation produced by the Canaanites in the time of Deborah had been predicted in the Pentateuch?

66. More than one prediction of the Pentateuch was fulfilled in the time of the prophet Elisha?

67. At what period in Jewish history was there war between the Ishmaelites and Israelites ?

68. To what cause does the sacred writer ascribe the victory of the Transjordanite tribes in this war?

69. The first public act of blasphemy and the first idolatry among the people of Israel both took place in the same tribe?

70. The great victory of Gideon over the Midianites is noticed on two occasions by the prophet Isaiah ?

71. What place was celebrated in later Scripture history as the scene of the death of Jabin and Sisera in the time of Deborah ?

72. Though Endor is not mentioned in the Book of Judges as the place of Sisera's death, yet the substantial agreement in the two statements may be readily inferred?

73. Mount Hermon is said to have been known by three names in Scripture history?

74. How is the fact of the Sidonian name of the mountain being mentioned accounted for by Mr. Blunt?

75. The rigorous policy of forbidding workers in iron among the Israelites, which existed in the days of Saul, appears to have been enforced by the Canaanites as early as the time of Barak?

76. In what cities only were the Anakims allowed by Joshua to dwell?

77. The first result of David's being anointed king over all Israel was to bring on a foreign war; from what quarter?

78. What was the result of this war?

79. One of the victories obtained by David on this occasion is alluded to by the prophet Isaiah?

80. On what occasions do the Philistines reappear in Jewish history after the time of David?

81. Whence did the Philistines originally spring, and how are they generally designated in the LXX. ?

82. When David first attempted to bring up the Ark, where was it temporarily deposited after his failure?

83. What reason does Mr. Blunt suggest for this choice?

84. The battle between Absalom's troops and those of David is said to have taken place in the wood of Ephraim in the land of Gilead; how may the existence of a place of this name on the east side of Jordan be accounted for?

85. To what circumstance in Jeroboam's history may his choice of the worship of the golden calves be probably ascribed?

86. Jeroboam's idolatry was carried much further, however, than the worship of the golden calves?

87. Is the observance of the Sabbath ever alluded to in the historical books?

88. The Book of Job contains one striking reference to the land of Palestine ?

89. The doctrine of original sin appears to be clearly indicated in this Book?

90. What passage in the Book of Job has been supposed to refer to the "Ángel of Jehovah," so often mentioned in other parts of Scripture ?

91. What are the chief points in which the doctrinal system of Elihu differs from that which is developed in other parts of the Book of Job?

92. The Book of Job furnishes several undesigned coincidences, which clearly attest the authenticity of the history?

93. One remarkable appellation is peculiar to this Book and the Book of Genesis ?

94. The enigmatical character of some portions of ancient prophecy was perceived by the prophets themselves?

95. Some of the types of the Old Testament were prophecies, even in the most literal sense?

96. In this respect, what difference exists between types and prophecies, according to Mr. Davison ?

97. What remarkable evangelical prophecy is contained in Hosea? 98. Two false prophets appear to have especially resisted Jeremiah in his prophetical office?

99. What injunction is contained in Zechariah with regard to the nalty to be inflicted on false prophets?

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100. St. Paul, on one occasion, quotes a prophecy of Isaiah as written in the Law"?

IOI. Ezekiel plainly intimates that the assent given by the Jews to the truth of his divine mission was a constrained and extorted assent ? 102. In Isaiah but one prophecy is directed against an individual by name?

103. Similar predictions against private individuals occur both in Jeremiah and Amos?

104. What prophecies of Amos are quoted in the New Testament?

105. Two objections are made against the reference of Haggai's prophecy respecting the glory of the second temple to the time of our Lord? 106. How do the LXX. translate the text in Haggai ?

107. The plural form is used by the same interpreters in translating another eminent Messianic prophecy?

108. The second objection can be easily shown to have but little weight?

109. Besides the prediction concerning the temple, Haggai contains another Messianic prophecy?

110. The closing words of Old Testament prophecy combined a retrospect to the Law with clear tokens of the advent of the Gospel?

REV. GEORGE LONGFIELD.

NEW TESTAMENT.

1. What MS. of the Scriptures is designated by the letter &? What are the contents of this MS. ?—and what inference may be thence derived as to its age?

2. Does the fact that Codex A contains the Epistles of Clement warrant a similar conclusion as to its antiquity?

3. What affords the most certain evidence of the great antiquity of Codex &?

4. What proves it to be more ancient than the Vatican MS. ?

5. This MS. supplies a valuable testimony to the genuineness of St. Matthew's Gospel?

6. Give an account of the textus receptus of the New Testament, and of the origin of the name.

7. If Griesbach's system of recensions be adopted, to which is the textus receptus to be referred?

8. How did Michaelis add to Griesbach's system of recensions? What representatives have we of the Edessene system?

9. What portions of the New Testament are wanting in the Peschito version?

10. The alterations in the text in the Alexandrine and Occidental recensions may be traced to different influences?

II. The assertion that the term evayyéλcov is applied in the New Testament only to things orally described, and that its application to written documents is later than the Apostolic age, cannot be maintained?

12. In the Latin Church the order of the Gospels was different from that in our Bible; what was the reason of this?

13. Three different hypotheses have been maintained as to the original language of St. Matthew's Gospel?

14. What argument in favour of the Greek original has been founded on an examination of the quotations in this Gospel from the Old Testament?

15. On what grounds does Dean Alford question the statement of Irenaus with respect to St. Luke's Gospel, Λουκᾶς δὲ ὁ ἀκόλουθος Παύλου το ὑπ' ἐκείνου κηρυσσόμενον εὐαγγέλιον ἐν βιβλίῳ κατέθετο.-Har. iii. 1.?

16. What passage in St. Luke's Gospel indicates most plainly the effect of his intercourse with St. Paul?

17. The selection of parables and discourses of the Saviour made by St. Luke is thought to show the influence of the teaching of the great Apostle of the Gentiles?

18. Jerome alludes to an opinion held by some, according to which St. Paul himself recognised the fact (qu. 15) stated by Irenæus ?

19. St. Paul perhaps in one place quotes St. Luke's Gospel?

20. What designation of the Eternal Son is peculiar to St. John's Gospel?

21. The now familiar designation of the Saviour, "Our Lord," & Kúpios μwv, is found but in one place in the New Testament?

22. Is the Lord ever designated "Son of Man" after His ascension? 23. A mode of designating the Saviour in the concluding passage (xvi. 9-20) of St. Mark's Gospel has been regarded as a proof of the spuriousness of the passage?

24. What one parable is peculiar to St. Mark's Gospel ?

25. An argument for the identity of authorship of St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse has been derived from a quotation from the Old Testament found in both?

26. Dr. Lee remarks that we may infer from this quotation the principle on which the writers of the New Testament used the version of the LXX. ?

27. What is there in the account of the census of Cyrenius (Luke, ii. I, &c.) that speaks strongly for the accuracy of the chronology?

28. Marks of genuineness are strongly imprinted on the canticles in the first and second chapters of St. Luke's Gospel?

29. From what passage in one of St. Paul's Epistles is it inferred that St. Luke was a Gentile?

30. "He shall be called a Nazarene."-Matt. ii. 23. State the various interpretations that have been proposed of these words.

31. The mode of citing the words indicates that they were not intended as a verbatim quotation from one of the prophets?

32. "Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet."-Matt. i. 22. What are the prepositions in the original, and what is the distinct import of each ?

33. St. Luke gives us a valuable clue to one of the significancies of the Transfiguration ?

34. A difference between St. Luke on the one hand, and St. Matthew and St. Mark on the other, as to a note of time connected with the Transfiguration, is harmonized by Augustine (de Doct. Christ.) ?

35. A comparison of the accounts of the Transfiguration in St. Matthew and St. Luke brings to view a remarkable undesigned coincidence between the narratives?

36. In reference to St. Peter's allusion to the Transfiguration (2 Pet. i. 14, &c.), Dean Alford directs attention "to one of those remarkable