THE EXPOSITOR.

The Staff.

THE VERY REV. THE DEAN OF CANTERBURY.
THE VERY REV. THE DEAN OF PETERBOROUGH.
THE VERY REV. THE DEAN OF WELLS.
VEN. ARCHDEACON FARRAR, D.D., F.R.S.
REV. CANON EVANS, M.A.

MR. R. H. HUTTON, M.A.

REV. GEORGE SALMON, D.D.

REV. W. SANDAY, D.D.
REV. HENRY WACE, M.A.
REV. EDWIN A. ABBOTT, D.D.
REV. J. RAWSON LUMBY, D.D.
REV. T. K. CHEYNE, M.A.
REV. R. E. BARTLETT, M.A.
REV. EDGAR C. S. GIBSON, M.A.

REV. JOHN TULLOCH, D.D.

REV. A. B. DAVIDSON, D.D.

REV. W. ROBERTSON SMITH, D.D.
REV. GEORGE MATHESON, D.D.

REV. JAMES MORISON, D.D.

REV. W. MILLIGAN, D.D.

REV. A. B. BRUCE, D.D.

REV. J. OSWALD DYKES, D.D.

REV. R. W. DALE, LL.D.

REV. A. M. FAIRBAIRN, D.D.

REV. H. R. REYNOLDS, D.D.

REV. D. W. SIMON, PH.D.

REV. JOSEPH AGAR BEET.

REV. GEORGE G. FINDLAY, B.A.

THE

EXPOSITOR.

EDITED BY THE REV.

SAMUEL COX, D.D.

SECOND SERIES.

Volume VIII.

London:

HODDER AND STOUGHTON,

27, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCLXXXIV.

Butler & Tanner,

The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London.

PREFACE.

I HAVE to announce that the Publishers, who are also the Proprietors, of this Magazine intend to commence a new Series with the new Year, under a new Editor.

I make that announcement with unfeigned regret; for I am heartily sorry to lose a work which has been a labour of love throughout, in which I have received much generous sympathy and assistance from eminent scholars in almost every branch of the Christian church, and to which I looked forward as likely to furnish a welcome occupation for my declining years. But there is no help for it. And it is but due, I think, both to the Publishers and myself, to say, that the reason for this change is a purely theological one, and has nothing whatever to do with the literary standing or the circulation of the Magazine. Both as a literary and a commercial venture, The Expositor has achieved success. But its Proprietors conscientiously object, (1) to "the loose views of Inspiration" involved in the critical theories of the School of which, for instance, my friend Dr. W. Robertson Smith is a distinguished ornament; (2) to those allusions to "the larger hope" which occur, e.g. in my own contributions, and to the general tone of thought which a belief

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