We learn, with great regret, that the Rev. Stephen Olin, D.D., President of the American Wesleyan University, died on the 16th of August last. He is best known in this country as the author of two volumes of Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land; which afford a most excellent account of those countries, the best perhaps existing in our language—always excepting Dr. Robinson's great work, from which indeed it is altogether different. Dr. Olin was born in 1797, and travelled in 1837-8, for the benefit of his health. A notice in the American Methodist Quarterly Review, for October, describes him as "a man of remarkable organization. His physical and mental properties were alike gigantic. His intellect was of that imperial rank to which but few of the sons of men can lay claim. At once acute, penetrating, and profound, it lacked none of the elements of true mental greatness."
Archibald Alexander, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Theology at Princeton, New Jersey, died there on October 21, in his eightieth year. He was a constant contributor to the Princeton Review, now in the twenty-seventh year of its existence; and his prominent works, 1. The Evidences of the Christian Religion. 2. A Treatise on the Canon of Scripture. 3. The Evidence of the Authenticity, Inspiration, and Canonical Authority of the Scriptures. 4. Thoughts on Religion. 5. A History of Civilization on the Western Coast of Africa.
Dr. H. E. G. Paulus died at Heidelberg on the 10th September. For more than half a century he has been celebrated as one of the most able and active among the writers of the rationalistic school of German theology. Dr. Paulus was born at Leonberg, near Stuttgard, in 1761. He studied chiefly at Tubingen, but visited several other universities in Germany, Holland and England. While at Oxford in the year 1784 he was appointed professor of oriental languages at Jena. In 1793 he succeeded to the theological chair, and gave lectures on theology for about 40 years at Jena, Wurzburg, and Heidelberg, till advancing age and its infirmities compelled him to retire from his public duties.
The China mail brings tidings of the death of Dr. Charles Gutzlaff, the wellknown Chinese scholar, traveller and missionary; a man of a generous self-denying spirit, in zeal for every good work untiring, and in labour indefatigable. He early inured himself to hardships, and in his devotedness to his work of spreading Christian truth he was regardless of privation and dangers. He was a native of Stettin, in Pomerania. We record with deep regret the passing away, at the comparatively early age of 48, of one who combined in a remarkable degree piety and learning, with public usefulness and private worth.-Literary Gazette, Oct. 25.
The Stockholm papers announce the decease of Dr. Wingard, Archbishop of Upsal and Primate of Sweden. He was Professor of Sacred Philosophy in the University of Lund. He has bequeathed his library of upwards of 34,000 volumes, and his rich collection of coins, medals, and Scandinavian antiquities, to the University of Upsal.-Ibid.
The Rev. Dr. Philip, who for thirty-three years was Director of the London Missionary Society's operations at the Cape of Good Hope, died at Hankey, South Africa, on the 27th of August last. Dr. Philip for more than a quarter of a century was pastor of the church assembling at Union Chapel, Cape Town, where his labours were distinguished by great intelligence and devotedness: before he came to South Africa he had the pastoral charge of a church in Aberdeen. The long career of Dr. Philip in South Africa was an illustration how far the duties of the citizen may be combined with those of the Christian minister; and his South African Researches is a monument of his enlightened advocacy of the cause of the aborigines.—Evangelical Magazine, December.
Professor Humbert, of the Academy of Geneva, a distinguished Orientalist, and author of many learned works, is reported to have died on the 19th September. The Continental papers report the death at Jena of Professor Wolff.
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FIRST VOLUME, NEW SERIES,
THE JOURNAL OF SACRED LITERATURE.
Abraham, his faith in the Ministry of
Angels, 290.
Achilli, Dr., his conversion and position
previously, 68; his evidence respecting
the Jesuits, ibid.; extract from his Deal-
ings with the Inquisition, 69.
Acts, the Book of, septenary division of,
145.
Ages, theory of the first six days being
so considered, 73.
aipeois, meaning of the word, 100.
Alfred the Great, Biblical labours of, 118.
ANALECTA BIBLICA: the ten virgins,
482; Christ's entombment, ibid.; the
forty days after the resurrection, ibid.;
the Syro-Phenician woman's reply, 483;
the miracle of the Stater, 484. One
talent, ibid., the problem, ibid., pray-
ing a sermon, ibid.; Rev. Dr. Jonas
King, 485; starving sermons, ibid.
Angel, an, ministers to Elijah, 293; Peter's,
305; the last on record, seen by John,
318.
the divine, his appearance to Hagar,
288; to Abraham, ibid.
-, an evil, the prince of the kingdom
of Persia, 297.
Angels, ministry of, 283; their holiness
not to be compared with God, 284;
earliest notices of, contained in the
book of Job, ibid.; their might and
subjection to the divine command, 286;
mode of worship, ibid.; appearances
and ministry, 288; first infliction of
punishments by, ibid.; economy of their
words and actions, 289; Jacob's vision
of, 291; employed in the punishment
of various nations, 292; their care for
the people of God, 294; Gabriel and
Michael the only two whose names are
known to us, 295; their interest in the
New Testament dispensation, 303; their
ministrations in the Gospel, 304; the
soul-bearers of the faithful, 305; at the
resurrection of Christ, 306; their office
at the last day, ibid.; deliverance of the
apostles by them, 307; orders of, 310;
inferior to the Son, 311; visions of in
the Apocalypse, 313; Rabbinical idea
of special duties for, 317.
Angels of the Churches, 312, and note.
fallen, 285-309; no mercy to, 287.
Anthropomorphism, horror of by the East-
ern nations not incompatible with de-
viation from the truth, 431.
Apocalypse, see Revelation, book of.
'ATоyрaph, meaning of the term, 9.
Arabic, the primitive language, 343;
identity of with the Hebrew and Chal-
daic, 346.
Aramean, original of the Epistle to the
Hebrews, theory of, 103.
Archelaus, deposed by the Emperor Au-
gustus, 18.
Architecture of Persepolis and Khorsabad,
429.
-, Sacred, value of Mr. Fergus-
son's book, as a commentary on, 432.
Aristeas, his History of the Septuagint
translation, 258; evidence of its authen-
ticity, 260; objections to 262; extracts
from, 269; notes.
Aristobulus the Jew, his testimony to the
History of Aristeas, 260.
Assyrian Mythology, symbolism of, 432.
Atonement, Jewish Opinions upon, 183.
Bashan, stock of the junior Rapha tribes,
363.
-, Rephaim of, state at the time of
the Hebrew Conquest, 364; present
state of the country, ibid.; anciently
very extensive, ibid.; its natural features,
365; political extinction by the children
of Ammon, 366.
Beauty, ideal of, its protean character, 433.
Biber, Dr. on Romish Miracles, 416.
Bible, The, its paramount authority upon
the Sabbath question, 76; earliest
translations in the poetic form, 120;
the first prose version by Wycliffe, 121.
BIBLICAL INTELLIGENCE, 241, 486.
Caligula, orders his statue to be erected
in the temple of Jerusalem, 24.
Canaanites and Rephaim, geographical
distribution of, 162.
Canaanitish Tribes, primary disposition
of, 166.
Cæsar, Augustus, held a census three
times, 1; left behind him a written
outline of the Empire, 5; deposes Ar-
chelaus, 18; his letters to Herod, 26;
extent of the registration intended by
him, 19.
Censorship in Rome, office borne by men
of distinction, 1.
Census, derivation of the term, 1; first
taken at Rome, 2; method of taking it,
ibid.; held separately in affiliated cities
and colonies, ibid.; originally taken in
each man's dwelling-house, ibid.; had
various and dissimilar significations, 3;
an act of sovereignty, ibid.; origin of
the institution, 3; impost the ultimate
aim of, 3; difference of the provincial
and metropolitan, 4; complete, of the
Roman Empire, a work of time and
difficulty, ibid.; one only made in Ju-
dea, 5; resisted by the Jews, ibid.;
in taking, aid required from the native
authorities, 6; analogous practice in
Hebrew history, 7; the one recorded
by Josephus mentioned in Scripture, 7;
improbability of Luke erring in regard
to it, 8; one only spoken of by him,
10-14; not a fictitious one he men-
tions, 13.
Characteristics of miracles, 395.
Cherubim, symbols of the glory of God.
301; on the mercy seat, ibid.
Christ: did not abolish the decalogue, 87;
vindication of his disciples plucking
corn on the Sabbath, 88; probability
of the Sabbath-day being changed by
him, 92; parallelistic arrangement of
his discourse upon healing the impotent
man at the pool of Bethesda, 185-197;
waxing wanton against, 197; of greater
dignity than angels, 311; state of the
earth previous to his second coming,
316.
Christian Sabbath considered, remarks
upon that work, 70.
Christianity, its preachers must not com-
promise with any other system, 206.
Colossians, Epistle to, connecting resem-
blance with the Epistle to the Ephe-
sians, 147.
Confession, use of, by the Jesuits, 55.
CONTEMPORARY PERIODICAL LITERA-
TURE, 495-499.
Controversies, periodical recurrence of
various, 395.
Converts, heathen, not taught to regard
the Seventh Day as sacred, 93; but
the first, 94.
Converts, Jewish, the first day of the
week their Sabbath, 93.
CORRESPONDENCE:
Textual criticism of the New Testa-
ment, 208.
Chronology of the kings of Judah and
Israel, 217.
Typical representations of the God-
head, 220.
On the hypothesis which identifies Silas
with the author of the book of Acts,
222.
Does the Vatican MS. contain the books
of the Maccabees? 245.
Dr. Tregelles, in answer to W.S., 454.
On the taxing mentioned in Luke ii.
1-3 verses, 456.
Rev. W. Grinfield and his Reviewers,
458.
Critical remarks on the common transla-
tion and interpretation of Matthew v.
21 and 22 verses.
Cumming, Dr., extracts from his Lectures
on Miracles, 400, et seq.
Cyrenius, appointed President of Syria, 5.
Daniel, his first vision, 300.
Darius, tomb dedicated to the memory
of, 425.
Davidson's Introduction to the New Tes-
tament, 98; character of the work,
ibid.; plan, 99; eulogium upon, 115.
Day, first, authority for its observance as
the Sabbath, 91; day on which the
disciples assembled, 91-93; the hea-
then converts taught to regard it as
sacred, 94; the apostolic age unani-
mous in celebrating it, 95.
Day, Lord's, the day so designated, 95.
Days, first six, natural days, 73.
Aé, translation of the word, in Matthew v.,
447; instances in the New Testament
in which it is not used adversatively,
448, note.
Dead, raising of the, by Christ, 410.
Decalogue, does not contain the original
appointment of the Sabbath, 80; but
its re-enactment, 86; not abolished by
Christ, 87.
Deluge, intimations of the existence of a
Sabbatic institution in its history, 75.
Dio Cassius, quotation from, 23.
Dives and Lazarus, parable of, septenary
arrangement of the, 136.
Divorce, common in the apostolic age,
200.
Eastern Nations, their horror of Anthro-
pomorphism, 431.
Education, a powerful engine of the Je-
suits, 55.
Edwards, Jonathan, his imaginative des-
cription of his religious experience, 336.
Egypt, Ancient, its long struggles with
the natives of Palestine, 157; its reli-
gious institutions, 158; period of Cush-
ite ascendancy, 159; Memphite dynasty
supreme in, 160 and note.
and Israel, their synchronical con-
nection, the chronological problem of
Scripture history, 152.
Egyptian Divinities, resolvable into two
primitive impersonations, 159, note.
and Assyrian chronology, mu-
tual relation of, 423.
Emim nations, power of the, 155; Sodom
the metropolis, ibid.
Ephesians, Epistle to, remarkable resem-
blance to the Colossians, 147.
Epistles, pastoral, their authenticity, 99.
"" Catholic, origin of the designa-
tion, 103.
Exercitia spiritualia, of Ignatius Loyola,
Exodus, the, contemporary records of,
340; truth of the account, ibid.; prob-
able error in the chronology of, 376.
Ezekiel, the prophet, neglect of by ex-
positors, 434; not more retrospectively
historical than Isaiah and other pro-
phets, 441; characterised by minute
detail, 443.
Ezekiel, the vision of, views entertained
upon, 435; historico-literal interpreta-
tion of, 435; historico-ideal, 436;
Jewish-carnal, ibid., Christian-spiritual,
437; perceptive form of, 439; objec-
tions to its literal interpretation, ibid.;
ideal character of, 440; its difference
from that of the apostle John, 444.
Faber, Peter, his friendship for Loyola,
49.
Fairbairn, Rev. Patrick, principles of his
exposition of the book of Ezekiel, 438;
character of the work, 446.
Fall, the, conflicting opinions of commen-
tators upon, 351; historical truth of,
355; freedom from mythical colouring,
361.
Fergusson, James, his book, on the palaces
of Nineveh and Persepolis, 422.
First day, authority for its observance as
the Sabbath, 91; day on which the
disciples of Christ assembled, 91-93;
the heathen and Jewish converts taught
to regard it as sacred, 93; observed in
the ages succeeding the apostles, 97.
"Fool," in Matthew v., remarks of com-
mentators upon the word, 449; its use
not necessarily sinful, 453; used by
Christ and Paul, ibid.
Forster, Rev. Chas., his Work on the
one Primeval Language, 340; deficien-
cies in it, 350.
Gabriel appears to Daniel, 296; to Ze-
chariah, 303; and to Joseph, ibid.
and Michael, the only two Angels
whose names are known to us, 295.
Genesis, the book of, its septenary ar-
rangement, 144.
Gesenius, his essay on the Samaritan pen-
tateuch, 281.
"Good Samaritan," the parable of, septe-
nary arrangement of, 137.
Greek version of the Old Testament, value
of the, 257; its extensive use by the
apostles and early Christians, 281.
Greeks, the, acquainted with the septimal
division of time, 83.
Grinfield, Mr., his hypothesis of the in-
spiration of the Septuagint, 280.
Gruter, quotation from, 23.
Hagar, the first to whom the divine angel
appeared after the fall, 288.
Ham, his descendants still retain a know-
ledge of a seventh day's rest, 84.
Hävernick on Ezekiel, quotation from, 445.
Hebrew MSS. of the Scriptures, scarcity
of old, and entire absence of very an-
cient, 56.
Scriptures, sources of errors in
MSS. of, 251; quotations from the Old
Testament in the New agreeing with,
273.
and Greek Scriptures of the Old
Testament, relative authority of, 251.
Hebrews, Epistle to the, its authorship
discussed, 101; Origen's opinion on,
102; canonical authority of, ibid.;
theory of its Aramean original, 103;
septenary scheme of, 144.
Hereford, Nicholas de, his translation of
the Old Testament, 127.
Herod, king, no power to oppose the will
of Augustus, 17; a vassal of Rome, 18;
instance of his dependence on the
Emperor, ibid.; purchased the privilege
of bequeathing his sceptre, ibid.; quar-
rels with Obodas, king of Arabia, 25;
sends ambassadors to Rome, 26; re-
conciled to Augustus, ibid.; his death,
308.
Herodotus, his account of Egypt con-
firmed by the Cuneiform inscriptions,
History, civil, its evidence of a septenary
division of time, 82.
Popish, importance of its study
at the present epoch, 40.
Hody, Dr., his work on the Greek Scrip-
tures, 265.
Hosea, Book of the prophet, septenary
arrangement of, 142.
Hyksos, the, their invasion of Egypt, 368;
founded a dynasty there, ibid.
and Hebrews, wars of the, 367.
Immortality, belief in by the early Israel-
ites, 179.
India, evangelization of, 203; difficulties
in the way, ibid.
Infallibility claimed by the Church of
Rome, 39.
Inquiry into the Origin of Septenary
Institutions, remarks upon, 70; quo-
tation from, ibid.
Inquisition, horror inspired by its name,
69.
INTELLIGENCE, BIBLICAL, 486.
James, Epistle of, its author, 104; design,
ibid.; date of composition, ibid.; not
contradictory of the Pauline Epistles,
105.
Japheth, his descendants acquainted with
the septenary division of time, 83.
Jesuit, no place for conscience in the soul
of, 56 and 60; dead to all filial rela-
tionship, 57; casuistry, 60-66.
Jesuit, Female, or Spy in the Family,
remarks upon the book, 67, note.
Jesuits, repeatedly banished from Catholic
countries, 40; character of their public
teaching, 54; their use of the confes-
sional, 55; and of education, ibid.
Jesuits as they were and are, extracts
from, 60 and 64.
Jesuitism, its evil effects upon countries
under its influence, 54 and 66; at
variance with the laws of God and
man, 67; its character in our day, ibid.
Jesus, society of, vows required by its
members, 45; military character of,
ibid.; organization, 48; the making of
its rules, 52; discipline prescribed to
novices before admission, 56.
Jerusalem, not originally Canaanite
ground, 167.
Jews, the, their pride and obstinacy, 24;
effect of the expectation of Messiah
upon them, ibid.; oppose Caligula's
attempt to place his statue in the
temple, ibid.; disregard of their Sab-
bath by the lower class, 175; final
restoration of, 180-183; preparation
for their great world-mission, 421.
of Syria and Egypt, polygamy
among, 174.
Jewish boys, ignorance of, 175.
synagogues, badly attended, 176.
females, their want of religious
training, 176.
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