St. Luke's Gospel in Greek. By the Rev. Arthur Wright.
(Mac. millan and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Wright, whose labours in the Held of inquiry into the sources of the Gospels are well known, has given us here a valuable work. After an introduction explaining his principles, his method, and his general conclusions, he exhibits the results of his inquiry in a series of tabular forms. These are far too complex for us to attempt to criticise or even to describe them. But we may commend them to the careful attention of scholars. Possibly we may be allowed to suggest a caution. In one paragraph (p. 117) we have a suggestion first that "some Platonist, who taught the absolute indestructibility of the human soul, may have altered the wording" [of Luke xii. 6], and that "the Stoics seem to have had influence over the Gospel records," the passage being Luke xxii. 30.46. May not such conjectures carry us a very long way?
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