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 his mind; only when he is able to estabhsh the fact that the religious experience of Israel corresponds with a more perfect and complete synthesis of the spiritual attitudes and requirements of the ancient world: then, and only then, will he accept the Old Testament.

But he has still something further to accomplish. To us the religion of Israel belongs but indirectly. To-day we are Christians, and our civilization is Christian; but, before we were so, we belonged to the Græco-Roman civilization. And if Christianity is the fulfilment of the religion of Israel, it had, in order to become ours, to make itself Græco-Roman by assimilating Western civilization to itself. Thus, even when the Old Testament has been accepted, there still remains an immense work to be accomplished. It is necessary not only to submit to criticism all the books of the New Testament, but to study their intimate relations, both those which they may