25. So St.. Paul Mlle himeeH S1d1rovo, (• of the name Bnrse.be.s, or Be.raabbas, la minister) in Eph. iii. 7; Col. i. 23, 25, eto. unknown; it scoms to bo ll patronymio (aon Bo the presbyters of the Church are calle<l ofSe.be.@,orSabbe.s), like Dnr-Tholomow, Bo.r• bishops (oh. xx. 17, 28; l Tim. i. l, 2. eto.). Jone.s, Bar.Jesus, etc. Dut it might e.lso be The eooleeiaati<'al names for the different descripth·e of his qualities, like Be.r-nab111, offices in the Church only acquired their Son of Oonsole.tion (eh. h·. 36), in which case dietin<'tive use IRler, and by the gradual one would expect it to mean the same as growth of custom. In the Septue.gint, J'nstU11, as i II the case of " Thoma.a called Di- ,.,.,mton, answers to the Hebrew ~r,pEI dym,u" (John u:. 4; where Thoma, andJJi- A.V., ''o'l"ersight" (Numb. iii. 32; iv.'16: dymusboth meitn "a twin"): but no Aramean etc.). word of this signifk1\tinu is forthcoming. The Yer. 21.-0f th~ men therefore for where- surno.meJustus, with its dcriva.tives Justinua fore of t.lu.'.SC mim, A.Y.; toent out for out, A.V. and Justinio.nus, WM nnt an uncommon Yer. 22.-The day for that iame day, A.V.; Roman name. It we.s o.lso borne by e. Jewish received for taken, A.V.; of these 7>1ust one historian oontemporarywith Josephus, Justus become for mmt one be ordained to be, A. V. of Tiberie.s, the son of Pistus (see ' Life of Beginning belongs to the Lord J'esus. He Josephus,' §§ 35, 65) and was the Burno.me begun to go in e.nd out among his apostles of James the Less. Matthias, not otherwise from the time that John baptized, e.ud con- known, but so.id by Nicephorus to have tinued to do eo till his ascension, the de.y preached ond suffered martyrdom in Ethiopia.. that he wu reoeivod np (" taken up," A.V.), Eusebius (' H. E;,• iii. 24) mentions spurious as in ver. 11. This definition of the time of Gospels "of Peter, Thomas, Matthie.s, and our Lord's public ministry e:i.:e.ctly agrees others," e.s quoted by heretics. A work with Matt. i'I". 12-25; Mink i.; Luke iii., called 'The Traditions of Matthias' is re- iv.; John i. 29--51. Must one becoI!lo a ferred to by Clemens Alexu.udrinus (' Strom.,' witness, etc. The resurrection of Christ ii. 163). from the dead thus nppCll.l's to be a Cll.l'<linal Ver. 24.-0f theie t,oo the one whom for doctrine of the gospel. The whole truth WMther of these twn, A.V. and T.R. cf Christ's mission, the accepto.nce of his Ver. 25.-To talce the place in this for sacrifice, t!:e consequent forgi'l"encss of sins, that M may talce part of tliis, A.V. o.nd T.R.; and all man's hopes of eternal life, turn fell away for by transg1·ession fell, A.V. upon it. All the sermons of the apostles (1raplfJ71). The use of 1rapafJa[vw in an in- recorded in the Acts e.ud the Epistles also transitive sense for "to tro.nsgress, fall nwe.y e.g11ee with this (see eh. ii., iii., i'I".; 'I". 31, 32; from, turn aside from," and the like, is fre- vi. 56, 59; x. 3~1; xiii. 30, etc.; Rom. quent in the LXX. (Exod. nxii. 8; Deut. i. 4; l Cor. X'I". 4; 2 Cor. i. 9, etc.; I Pet. i. 3; xvii. 20, etc.). To his own place. An o.wful iii.21,22; llev. i. 5,etc.). The great care taken phrase, showing that every me.n has the to BCCure competent witnesses is very pince in eternity which he has mo.de for remarko.ble. A disciple who ha<l recently himself in time. If the reading place, in joined the com;,any might be mistaken; one the beginning of the verse, is e.dopte,d instead who had been the do.ily compauion of Jesus of the part (1t>,.'ijpo11) of the A.V., then there Christ for three years and e. half, and knew is e. contrast between the blessed place of every gesture e.nd every feature of the apustleship, wLich Judas forfeited, and that Mast.er with perfect c.erte.inty, could not be of traitorsliip, which he acquired. mistaken. Ver. 26.-77,ey gave lots for them for they Ver. 23. - Put foT1JJ(lrd for appointed, gaTJeforth their lots, A.V. o.nd T.R. (avTois for A. V.; Barsabbcu for Barsabcu, A. V. and a,h,-11); but the T.R. gives tl,e easiest sense. T.R. 1oseph oa.lled Be.rea.bba.s (or Bnsabe.s). The exo.ct mode of ta.king the lot does not Nothing more is really known of him. His appear. Some think the no.we of eo.ch work for Chri.l!t he.s no ee.rtl,ly record, except cm1dide.te was written on e. tablet, nnd that the.t Pe.pias (Euscb., 'H. E.,' iii. 39) says that, the first nome which fell out of the urn after having drunk some deadly poison, by the it had been she.ken we.s the one chosen. grace of God he sustained no harm. Euse- Some think the lot was taken by dic.e. But bius elsewhere (i. 12) says the.t be, e.nd however the to.king of the lot was manngerl M.e.tthie.s were reporte<l to be of the seventy, the effect we.s to leave the choico to God U: which is not i.wprobable. The derivo.1ion o.nswer to prayer.
HOMILETICS. Vere. 1-11.-TM recapitulation. St. Luke is like a traveller, who, having gained a certain summit, before he proceeds on his journey through the new country which is openin~ upon bis view, stops and looks back upon the scene which be has traverse,], but which he is now about to lose sight of. He marks the sites which be.d attracted en. ,. 1-26.] THE ACTS OF Tm; APOSTLES. '1