There would be no need for a preface to this second volume were it notthat a very kindly and careful review of the first volume in TheGuardian of May 24 last, requires a word of notice. The reviewerwarns me off 'the dialogue system of exegesis.' Now no doubt thisprinciple, like every other, may be abused. 'The Jewish objector' may,as the reviewer complains, be allowed to 'run riot.' Still I cannotdoubt that the Jewish objector is a reality of an illuminative kind inthe argument of such passages as Romans iii. 1-8, or the great passage(ix-xi), to which the first part of this volume is devoted. Of theother points of detail noticed by the reviewer—which a volume of thiskind is not the place to discuss—many are confessedly doubtful, andsome unimportant. On most of{vi}them I am still disposed to retainmy former opinion, but I would, in accordance with my critic's wishes,alter 'the actual life' (vol. i. p. 203) into 'the principle of life,'and (p. 213) instead of saying that the principle of living by dying'belongs only to a fallen world' say that 'it belongs, as St. Paulviews it, though probably not in its ultimate law, to a fallen world.'I agree that in its deepest sense the principle appears to be anultimate law of all created life of which the conditions are known tous.
C. G.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY,
Conversion of St. Paul, 1900.
PAGEDIVISION IV The theodicy or justification of God for His dealings with the Jews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1CHAPTER IX. 1-13 § 1 The present rejection of Israelites no breach of a divine promise . . . . . . . . . . 14 14-29 § 2 God's liberty in showing mercy and judgement always retained and asserted . . . . . . . . . 31 30-x.21 § 3 Lack of faith the reason of Israel's rejection 44 XI. 1-12 § 4 God's judgement on Israel neither universal nor final . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59...