Norman H. Snaith

The Image of God

opinion that the calf story is a Deuteronomicallyinspired criticism of Jeroboam’s cult images at Dan and Bethel, we seem to be faced with the fact that the writers of Ex 32 employed considerable freedom and imagination in composing their account. What was this freedom? Was it simply antinorthern prejudice? Or did those southern writers have some base, some source, some tradition on which they founded their unfavourable picture? While it is often said that Ex 32 is coloured by the Deuteronomic tradition, I would like to suggest that there is another tradition which has also had consid-

The Meaning of 'The Paraclete.'

quite likely thing, that they might die in the next night and have to give to God about breakfast time an account of their stewardships, what Dr. Jowett actually said was this : ’ I find it set down in tables that the average duration of human life at the age of 21 is about 36 years. We may hope for a little more ; we may fear a little less, but, speaking generally, 36 years or about i3,ooo days is the term in which our task must be accomplished.’ Then remarked C. E. Montague, the undergraduate, ’ For myself and some others at least, I

Expository Problems: God: Transcendent and Immanent

there need be no contradiction, as there has often been in the history of the Church, between renewal and unity. There have always been those to whom the Church as it appears in history is so precious that they look with suspicion on any manifestation of new life that threatens its unity and peace ; and, on the other hand, there have always been those, from the days of Montanism till now, who have cared little for unity and peace if only their sect could exemplify the holy heavenly life on earth. In the eschatological dimension of the New Testament, however, there is no such contradiction, for renewal and unity are Divine gifts and are both created by the Holy Spirit.

The Width and Length of Words

The Saturday and Sunday Lessons from Luke in the Greek Gospel Lectionary (University of Chicago Press ; gs. net) is Volume II. Number 3 in Studies in the Lectionary Text of the Greek New Testament,’ edited by Dean Colwell. The author is Mr. Bruce M. Metzger, Ph.D., Instructor in New Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary ; and the work involves substantially two chapters of the author’s doctoral dissertation submitted in 1942 to the Classics Department of Princeton University. By far the larger part of the dissertation was concerned with the examination of a hitherto unedited Greek Gospel lectionary (Gregory 303) in the Library of Princeton Theological Seminary. The main body of the work before us has to do with the textual affinities of the Saturday and Sunday Lessons from Luke in this lectionary. Those Lessons are selected as representing an area common to both varieties of Greek Gospel lectionaries : one having lessons for every day in the week throughout the year ; the other daily from Easter to Pentecost, but during the rest of the year for Saturdays and Sundays only. Dr. Metzger makes a careful comparison of the Saturday and Sunday lessons in ’ Gregory 303 ’ with the Neutral, Western, ’ Caesarean,’ and Byzantine Texts. He concludes that probably the lectionary text for this area of Saturday and Sunday lessons from Luke was constituted from a New Testament text which was predominantly ’ Caesarean ’ (pre-Czesarean) in character, and that the ’ Caesarean ’ element was gradually eliminated from the lectionary text, which became proportionately more and more like the Byzantine text.

After Fifty Years: V. The Background of the Psalms

THE last fifty years have seen considerable changes in the methods of approach to the study of the Psalms, and correspondingly important developments in the understanding of them. As a result, the Psalms have never been more appreciated than they are to-day, not only for the evidence they provide concerning Hebrew-Jewish religion, but also for the spiritual strength they impart to every generation. When the period opened, commentators were still following, though nearing the end of the road, those first editors, the results of whose work are embedded in the very titles of the Psalms themselves. Attention was directed to individual