The "third series " of the Expositor, edited by the
Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton), opens with a paper by Archdeacon Farrar on " Modern English Exegesis," which makes a very appropriate preface to the work of this periodical. Among other papers we may mention the articles by Dr. A. Neubauer on " The Jewish Controversy and the Regio Fidei " (their appearance in a theological journal is an interesting sign of the times) ; Professor Godet, on " The Pastoral Epistles ;" Professor Cheyne, on " The Book of Isaiah in the Revised Version ;" and an essay, to which we have already alluded elsewhere, on the Second Book of Esdras, entitled " A Forgotten Poet," by A. Taylor Innes, M.A. Dr. Marcus Dods might well have left the miracle of " The Stater in the Fish's Mouth " alone. Every well-informed reader is aware that the tribute-money demanded was the " Temple-tax." What one really would desire some solution of, is the thaumaturgic character,' so to speak, of the act, so like the wonders of the False Gospels, so unlike the significant miracles of the New Testament.
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