THE

BIBLIOTHECA SACRA.

EDITORS:

G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, WM. G. BALLANTINE,

FRANK H. FOSTER.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:

EDWARDS A. PARK, JUDSON SMITH, WM. M. BARBOUR, E. C. BISSELL,
CHARLES F. THWING, SAMUEL IVES CURTISS, I. E. DWINELL,

D. W. SIMON, ARCHIBALD DUFF, AND C. V. SPEAR.

VOL. XLVI.

OBERLIN, OHIO:

PUBLISHED BY E. J. GOODRICH.

LONDON: TRÜBNER AND CO.

1889.

CONTENTS OF VOL. XLVI.

I.

Article

NO. CLXXXI.

DR. NATHANIEL TAYLOR...

Page

I

II.

III.

BY THE REV. WILLIAM WOODWORTH, D. D., BERLIN, CONN.

THE LIMITS OF MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY.....

BY THE REV. EDWARD N. PACKARD, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

THE DIVINE IMMANENCY (NO. IV.)..........

28

50

BY THE REV. JAMES DOUGLAS, D. D., PULASKI, NEW YORK.

IV. NOTES ON DR. RIDDLE'S EDITION OF ROBINSON'S

HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS: BEING A CONTRI-

BUTION TO A COMPLETE HARMONY OF THE

GOSPELS...

BY THE REV. CHARLES LEAMAN, OF THE PRESBYTERIAN

MISSION PRESS. SHANGHAI, CHINA.

V. THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE NEW ENGLAND DI-

VINES (NO. V.).......

BY THE REV. FRANK H. FOSTer, ph. d. (leIPZIG), Pro-

FESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY IN OBERLIN THE-

OLOGICAL SEMINARY.

VI. FUTURE PUNISHMENT AND RECENT EXEGESIS....

BY WILLIAM ARNOLD STEVENS, PROFESSOR IN ROCHESTER

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

73

95

123

VII. MUSIC AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION (NO. II.)......

142

BY EDWARD S. STEELE, OBERLIN, OHIO.

VIII. PSEUDO-KRANION.

171

IX.

BY PROFESSOR J. A. PAINE, PH.D., TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK.

CRITICAL NOTES.

181

181

Darwin on Herbert Spencer.

Divine Human Names...

184

X. GERMAN PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS...

Döllinger, Akademische Vorträge...

Pünjer, History of the Christian Philosophy of Religion from

the Reformation to Kant...

189

196

196

197

198

199

199

201

201

202

Curry, The Book of Job....

Dods, The Book of Genesis...

204

Petrie, Journal of Transaction of the Victoria Institute, or

Philosophical Society of Great Britain....

205

Real Encyclopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche

Bennett, Christian Archæology..

207

207

Books Received...

207

NO. CLXXXII.

I. OUR NOTABLE DECADE..

209

II. DR. LYMAN ABBOTT ON PAUL'S LETTER TO THE

ROMANS... .. .

BY THE REV. DELAVAN L. LEONARD, OBERLIN, OHIO.

229

BY THE REV. GEORGE H. GILBERT, PH.D., PROFESSOR

IN CHICAGO THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

III. THE UNIFORMITY OF NATURE..

245

BY THE REV. C. WALKER, D. D.. THEOLOGICAL SEM-

INARY, FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA.

IV.

THE SCRIPTURAL DOCTRINE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

BY THE REV. CHARLES F. THWING, D. D., MINNEAPO-

LIS, MINN.

262

V. NOTES ON DR. RIDDLE'S EDITION OF ROBINSON'S

HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS: BEING A CONTRI-

BUTION TO A COMPLETE HARMONY OF THE

GOSPELS (NO. II)................

BY THE REV. CHARLES LEAMAN, OF THE PRESBYTER-

IAN MISSION PRESS, SHANGHAI, CHINA.

VI. USES AND ABUSES OF AN IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE

OF INTERPRETATION....................

VII. SEPTENARY TIME AND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAB-

BATH..

.......

BY THE REV. JOHN Q. BITTINGER, HAVERHILL, N. H.

VIII. ATTRIBUTIVE AORIST PARTICIPLES IN PROTA-

SIS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT...

IX.

BY THE REV. PROFESSOR W. G. BALLANTINE, d.d.,

OBERLIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

THE LOST WRITINGS, QUOTED AND REFERRED TO,

IN THE OLD TESTAMENT......

293

304

321

342

X. CRITICAL NOTES...

The Use of Mythic Phrases in Modern Mission-Fields..

As to the Age of Daniel...

351

BY THE REV. professor IRA M. PRICE, PH.D., CHICAGO

BAPTIST UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

369

369

371

374

377

381

The Bethsaida of St. Luke ix. 10....

Re-examination of Darwin's Theory of Coral Islands..

Dr. Briggs on the Higher Criticism and its Results.....