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I. We agree with the Churchman's Magazine writer when he says: "The Divine authority of the one Lawgiver is that to which Christians mainly defer"—we add, must entirely defer. He further remarks: "It shall be my aim to present the Bible argument fairly and without disguise, and more [the italics are his own] particularly as some very important illustrations lately fell in my way, which I am quite sure are unknown to the bulk of Bible readers." So said Bishop Colenzo, when he undertook to give new readings of the Pentateuch, from discoveries newly made by him, and which he was "quite sure were unknown to the bulk of Bible readers." It may be presumed that what is quite new is false in Biblical interpretation, as well as in religion, and especially on a subject which has been discussed by the most learned Hebraists and Divines in England for very many years. Our clerical friend acknowledges himself indebted for these novel illustrations to a writer by the name of Galloway, who published a pamphlet in London last year on the subject; and the pamphlet of this man Galloway seems to constitute the sum and substance of our rural friend's researches and learning on a grave question of long and varied discussion for more than a quarter of a century.

II.—One of these novel illustrations is, the denial that Moses ever commanded a brother to marry the childless widow deceased brother, "and raise up seed to his brother; or that the seven brothers mentioned in Matthew, xxii. chapter, verses 24 and 25, were own brothers. Moses said, (Deuteronomy xxv. 5, 6), "If brethren dwell together, and