We have great pleasure in calling attention to the fourth
annual volume of the Expositor, editod by the Rev. S. Cox. (Hodder and Stoughton, and Strahan and Co.)—First we have a series of excellent articles by the editor on the Book of Job, which he assigns, we see, to the age of Solomon. Following this is an interesting little paper by Mr. Rayner Winterbotham, on what he calls " slang " words in the New Testament. There are three of them,—oxiXXso (St. Mark v. 35), literally meaning "to bite," which he happily renders" worry ;" imrmir,ge• (St. Luke xviii. 5), used naturally enough by St. Paul, in 1 Com ix. 7, of dealing blows to the body, but more strangely in the parable of the "Unjust Judge," in the sense of wearying; and finally, wravaparr (2 Cor. xii. 13-14), for which the writer ingeniously suggests the equivalent "sponge upon." The apostle is declaring as forcibly as possible that he will not live at the expense of the Corinthians. Nigro, means a torpedo, which was supposed to live parasitically on the creature to which it attached itself. The same writer has further on in the volume a very curious paper on the publicity which our Lord's working of miracles entailed, on the pain which it caused Rim, and on His reluctance to employ the power. In this view, the words, " Woman, what have I to do with thee ? mine hour is not yet come," appear not a rebuke to his mother, but an ejaculation called forth by the prospect which was then opening before Him. We may also mention some valuable criticism on the Epistles of St. Peter, by the Rev. J. Rawson Lumby. The Expositor is a publication of sterling value.
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