pope for an eoclesiastioal and e.n emperor for a civil head, but by one God- Man, who oonta.ins in himself the source of all authority, alike oivil and spiritual (of., perhaps, Zech. vi. 13 and Ps. ox.). The kingdom of God is a much grander oonoeption, because wider, than that of the Church, 1 harder far for us to grasp beoause its realization is so future, but full of promise for those who believe that every part of the material world, and every power of mind and act of hand or eye, is intended to be used for God, and has its place in his realm. Thus it is that the earliest proclamation of Christianity is not that of the Church. It is that of" the kingdom of God," or, in probably still earlier phraseology, "the kingdom of heaven." •
XI. A BRIEF PLAN OF THE GoSPEL. § 22. Ch. i., ii. Jesus is Messiah (a) by human inheritance; (b) by the fii.ct that the circumstances of his birth and early life fulfil prophecy. Oh. iii.-iv. 16. His entrance on the Messianic office. , Ch. iv. 17-xvi. 20. Jesus as Teacher and as Worker. Opposition and acceptance seen in their growth. The climax (oh, xvi. 13-20) of recognition of hie. true nature by some. Ch. xvi. 21-xxv. Suffering: he accepts and does not shun it. Ch. :u:vi.-xxviii And thus enters upon his kingdom.
XIL CoNOLUDING REMARKS. It may save misunderstanding if I state once for all that, except in rare cases, I have not thought it worth while to reinvestigate questions of textual criticism. Westoott and Hart's text has been accepted throughout as that which most nearly resembles the original Greek of the New Testament. The Received Text has been taken from Scrivener's N0'1Jt11r11 Te,11w1mentwm Grmce, e,ditio major, 1887. I have tried to work independently, and though I have used everything that came in my way, I have not cared to reproduce what may be found in the ordinary English commen- taries. Of recent commentators, Weiss ( especially in his edition of Meyer, 1883), Nosgen (in the •Kurzgefasster Kommenta.r,' 1886), and Kiibel (1889) have been the most helpful. Bruder's 'Concordance,' Winer's 'Grammar' (Moulton's edition, 1870), Thayer's Grimm's 'Lexicon.' are ioo well known to require further mention. Of course, Rushbrooke's 'Synopticon' {1880) is indispensable to all serio11S students of the Gospels. The references to the Septuagint have been taken from Dr. Swete's edition so far as that has been published, those to the Vulgate of Matthew from Wordsworth and White'• edition (1889). I cannot let these chapters go forth without ' Eph. i. 23, "The Church which is his body, the fulneee of him that filleth all in e.ll" only confirms this. The Church is not called the totality of all things directly, but the totality of the Lord's powers and attributes. In other words, the apostle is there epi,e.king of the union of pereollB with the One Pereon, to whose all-pervading and all• ~uete.ining work the end of the clause allude8. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BT. MATTHEW. xxvii
expressing my thanks to the Rev. F. H. Chase, B.D., Principal of the Clergy Training School, Cambridge, for his untiring kindneBB in reading both the manuscript and the proof-sheets, and for making many most valuable suggestions. A. LUKYN WILLIAMS, HEBREW MrsBioN.A.RY CoLLmE, PALESTINE PLACE, N.E., April 24th, 1892. ( xxviil )
.. I have never been able to consent with that which so often is asserted-namely, that the Gospels are in the main plain and easy, and that all the chief difficulties of the New Testament are to be foUDd in the Epistles." ARCHBISHOP TRENCH (' Studies in the Gospels,' Prefrice. March 8, 1867). THE