Ecepositions of Holy Scripture. By Alexander Maclare - n, D.D. (Hodder and
Stoughton. 7s. 6d. per vol.)—We have before us two volumes of this most excellent series,—St. Luke rviii.-xxiv. and The Epistle to the Bo-mans. We cannot, of course, follow Dr. Maclo.ren through two books of Scripture, books, too, of the highest importance, and can only express our general appreciation of his work. One sentence, however, we may quote from the com- mentary on the parable of Dives and Lazarus. Readers are too apt to take that parable as revealing the unseen world. "It would not be to a group of Pharisees," says Dr. Maolaren, "that He would have revealed that world. Ho takes their own conceptions of it,—angel bearers, Abraham's bosom, the two divisions of Hades, the separation and yet communication between them. These are Rabbis' fancies, not Christ's revelations." The more we can realise that Christ spoke as a Jew to Jews; the less difficulty we shall find in His utterances.
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