77. We have only one statement in the New Testament which leads us to believe that Paul and Apollos had personal communication with each other?

78. On one occasion St. Paul uses strongly sacrificial language with regard to himself, the offering being his converts?

79. Philippians, i. 14. My bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace". What is the Greek word which the Authorized Version renders by palace, and what is its real meaning?

80. What person mentioned in the Epistle to the Colossians is supposed by many to have founded that Church?

81. It may be shown that the interval between the commencement of St. Paul's imprisonment and the writing of the Epistle to the Philippians admitted of four journeys between Philippi and Rome

82. From what may we infer that the Epistle to the Philippians was written after those to the Colossians and Ephesians?

83. Phil. i. 16. οιόμενοι θλίψιν επιφέρειν τοῖς δεσμοῖς μου. What word is substituted for Eπipeρev in the oldest MSS.?

84. Modern criticism has weakened the connexion of the Epistle to the Hebrews with St. Paul's Roman imprisonment?

85. Heb. viii. 4. οἵτινες ὑποδείγματα καὶ σκιᾷ λατρεύουσιν τῶν Tоvрavíwv. Bishop Butler's explanation of this appears to be based upon a mistranslation of the Authorized Version?

86. Heb. xiii. 4. 66 Marriage is honourable in all". What are the different renderings of the original Greek of this passage? Which are to be preferred to this?

87. Heb. ii. 1. “Lest at any time we should let them slip". What is the Greek expression, and how ought it to be rendered ?

88. Heb. ii. 9. "That he by the grace of God should taste death for every man". What is the other reading here, and how is it variously interpreted?

89. Heb. ix. 1. "The first covenant had a worldly sanctuary'". What is the other rendering of the Greek words here?

90. Heb. ix. "Moses took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people". This differs in two respects from the account in Exodus ?

91. The three Christian graces are connected in three consecutive verses of the Epistle to the Hebrews according to the original Greek? 92. "He looked for a city which hath foundations". What is the accurate rendering of this verse?

93. Rom. iii. 25. “To declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past". The margin gives a more correct rendering of one word, and Archbishop Trench corrects another?

94. Rom. v. 15. "The gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many". The Authorized Version renders this incorrectly, following the example of Beza?

95. Rom. vii. 6. "That being dead in which we were held". The textus receptus here has no MS. authority?

96. Rom. viii. 28. "All things work together for good to them that love God". There is another reading of the Greek of this verse, which rests on very ancient authority?

97. Rom. ix. 25. What is remarkable in the manner in which the Apostle quotes this prophecy of Hosea?

98. Two texts of the prophet Isaiah are connected both by St. Paul and St. Peter, and in each case there is the same departure from the rendering of the present Hebrew text and from the LXX. ?

99. Coloss. ii. 8. "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit". What is the Greek word for spoil, and its full signification?

100. Ephes. iv. 22. "And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness". There is a strikingly parallel passage in the Epistle to the Colossians?

101. 2 Peter, i. 5. "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge". The English version is doubly

in error?

102. 2 Tim. ii. 26. "And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will". What is the correct rendering of this verse?

103. 1 Thess. v. 23. "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless". What are the Greek words which are here rendered wholly and whole, and how do they differ?

104. Rev. x. 6, 7. "That there should be time no longer. But when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished". Correct this rendering in three places.

105. Rom. xi. 7, 8. "The rest were blinded. ten, God has given them the spirit of slumber". renderings of the Greek words here; what is κατανύξεως ?

According as it is writThere are two marginal the correct meaning of

106. Rom. xii. 9. ̔Η ἀγάπη ανυπόκριτος, ἀποστυγοῦντες τὸ πονηnov. There is a strictly parallel construction to this in the Epistle to the Hebrews?

107. 1 Cor. ii. 13. πνευματικοῖς πνευματικὰ συγκρίνοντες. Enumerate the various ways in which these words have been rendered.

108. 1 Cor. ix. 20. "To those who are under the law, as under the law, that I may gain them who are under the law”. The received text has here a remarkable omission; how is it accounted for?

109. 1 Cor. xiv. 33, 34. "God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. Let your women keep silence in the churches". What is the arrangement of these clauses adopted by most of the recent critics?

110. St. Matthew tells us that in the miracle of feeding the five thousand, they that had eaten were five thousand men, besides women and children. St. John indicates this in the Greek words which he uses?

III. In Hebrews, ix. 24, 26, 28, our Lord is said to appear on three several occasions; in the original Greek there are three different verbs used, which are all rendered by the one English word in the Authorized Version?

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

REV. DR. GIBBINGS.

The following Questions, amongst others, were proposed vivâ voce to the Candidates:

1. What were the peculiar privileges of the "Fideles ?"

2. How was the word Kavov anciently used, with reference to the Clergy and others? and why?

3. On what grounds has it been pretended, that the title of "Papa" was specially assigned to S. Cyril of Alexandria?

4. Who first was styled "Episcopus Episcoporum ?"

5. S. Paul has been supposed to have appointed, that Bishops should be Judges in secular causes?

6. What Letters were called Koivшviкà урáμμата?

7. Bishop Pearson is said to have altered his opinion relative to two Bishops in a single city?

8. Earliest instance of a Coadjutor Bishop?

9. Mistake of Cardinal Baronius, with regard to the episcopate of S. Gregory Nazianzen ?

10. At the time of the first institution of Patriarchs, how many of them were there in the Church? how many in the diocese of Britain?

II. What writer first makes mention of the Order of Readers ?-Prove that their office was regarded as honourable.

12. Who were the 'Yπoßoλɛs in the ancient Church? and why so called?

13. Earliest notice of the Order of the Parabolani ?—Their office; and the origin of the name ?

14. Why were Catechists anciently styled Navroλóyoı?

15. How many days in the year were called Dies Coronati? and for what reason?

16. What was the text-book of the Lutheran Divines early in the sixteenth century?

17. Whom does Archdeacon Hardwick call "the evil genius of the Reformation ?"

18. After the death of Calvin in 1564, a reaction against his religious system commenced in Switzerland. Who was the great leader of that counter-movement?

19. Who first disseminated the peculiar tenets of the Lutherans in Scotland? and at what date?

20. Who was Hooker's friend, a Professor of Divinity at Leyden in 1582 and what work on Episcopacy did he publish in opposition to Beza?

21. Date, and other name, of The Bishops' Book? and what was the revised edition of the same Formulary called?

22. In what year did the first book of Homilies appear?-How many Homilies were then published? and who were the authors of any of them?

23. Can you name the sources of new elements of thought, visible in the first Prayer-book of King Edward VI. ?

24.

What hints were taken, for King Edward's second Prayer-book, from Formularies used by foreigners?

25. Name of the first victim in the Marian persecution? and when did he suffer death?

26. What was the definition of Heresy framed at the commencement of Queen Elizabeth's reign?

27. With respect to the "Succession" of the English Bishops, at the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, what fable was circulated? and what is the best work on the subject?

28. An Archbishop of Canterbury, very early in the seventeenth century, had previously written two remarkable works in defence of Church principles ?

29. In what year was the New Testament first printed in Irish? and by whom was the work carried through the press ?

30. The Council of Trent committed to Pope Pius IV. some very important literary duties?

31. Date of the establishment of the Roman Inquisition ?

32. Through what instrumentality was the power of the Church of Rome introduced into Ireland ?

33. First Bishop of the Danes in Dublin? and date of the foundation of Christ Church during his episcopate ?

34. Who was the author of the remarkable Chronicle, which exceeds anything of the kind that the Middle Ages have produced?

35. When was Diocesan Episcopacy established generally in Ireland? 36. What is perhaps the most interesting record, relating to Irish affairs, in the first half of the twelfth century?

37. Explain the meaning of the word "Coarb."

38. What were Termon lands?

39. Who were the Erenachs?

40. Who was the second Irishman canonized by a Pope? and when? 41. Name of the most remarkable writer on the subject of the AngloNorman Conquest of Ireland?

42. In what work does the term "Transubstantiatio" first occur? 43. What is the great question, relative to the Eucharistic controversy in the ninth century?

44. The doctrine of our countryman Joannes Scotus, with regard to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, was not the same as that maintained by Ratramnus, though both these writers were opposed to Paschasius Radbertus?

45. How does Claude, in his Catholic Doctrine of the Eucharist, account for the origin of the name Bertram ?

46. By what simple means can the doctrine of our Reformers, respecting the Eucharist, be shown to be in agreement with the principles which prevailed in England, on the same subject, in the tenth and eleventh centuries?

47. Date of Elfric's Paschal Homily ?-and by whom, and when, was it first published in Anglo-Saxon and English?

48. Who first, according to Archbishop Ussher, leavened the Church of England with the "corrupt doctrine of the Carnal Presence ?"

49. How does it appear, that the celebrated Hildebrand was not really a believer in the doctrine of Transubstantiation ?

50. What discovery dispelled the illusions of the Benedictines with respect to Berengarius ?

ARTICLES AND LITURGY.

REV. GEORGE LONGFIELD, D. D.

1. What answer did Lord Shaftesbury receive, when he asked in the House of Peers, in the year 1675, "How much is meant by the Protestant religion?"

2. In his commentary on Art. XXI., Burnet observes that we allow the authority of the first four General Councils; how do we recognise it?

3. Bishop Browne remarks of one of the Homilies, that it has peculiar authority; which of them, and why?

4. The Article of 1552 corresponding to our sixth contained a clause in which a certain value was assigned to tradition ?

5. One of our Articles makes a direct appeal to the custom of the primitive Church?

6. Where in the Prayer Book is the value of primitive testimony recognised?

7. Which of the Fathers are referred to by name in our Articles?

8. In one particular, as to its external form, the English ritual resembles that of the Eastern Church more than that of the Western Churches?

9. How does Hooker reply to the objection made by the Puritans to our Liturgy that it contains too many petitions for earthly things?

10. Certain additions made to the Prayer Book in 1604 obviated one objection of the Puritans?

11. The Puritans were not quite consistent in objecting to the Prayer Book as being deficient in expressions of thanksgiving?

12. What is the supposed original of the commencement of our Morning and Evening Services prefixed in 1552 ?

13. If the Confession was taken from this source, the peculiar doctrines of the foreign reformers were carefully avoided?

14. There are expressions inconsistent with the Calvinistic theory both in the Confession and in the Absolution?