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 Priest for ever .... moreover, that lie should be their Captain, and should take charge of the sanctuary ..... beside this, that he should be obeyed of every man.

S. Matt. ii. 17. This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.

S. Luke i. 30. Fear not, Mary ; for thou hast found favour with GOD.

11. It cannot be denied that some of the references are so extremely far-fetched or allegorical, as to be utterly inapplicable to modern audiences, who have to learn, for the most part, the general principle of any symbolical teaching in Holy Scripture. Thus, that the soul of the proud man is the abode of Satan is proved by the text, referring to Behemoth ; " He lieth under the tall trees." That we ought frequently to call to mind our sins in order to confess them the more exactly, is taught from the three following passages : Gen. i. 9. "And GOD said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear ; and it was so." Gen. xxvii. 9. " Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth." xxxviii. 17. "And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it? " The great truth, that a man is never so likely to be exposed to temptation, as when he has just received some especial grace, is taught from Tobit vi. 2; it was when Tobias had just been washing himself in the river that the fish leapt out upon him, and would have devoured him. Against the discrepancy between the lives and doc-