(3) State briefly the principal arguments for and against the Divine Institution of primitive Sacrifice.

6. Translate and explain:

Τούτοις τοῖς ἀνδράσιν ὁσίως πολιτευσαμένοις συνηθροίσθη πολὺ πλῆθος ἐκλεκτῶν, οἵτινες πολλὰς αἰκίας καὶ βασάνους διὰ ζῆλον παθόντες, ὑπόδειγμα κάλλιστον ἐγένοντο ἐν ἡμῖν. Διὰ ζῆλον διωχθεῖσαι γυναῖκες Δαναΐδες καὶ Δίρκαι αἰκίσματα δεινὰ καὶ ἀνόσια παθοῦσαι, ἐπὶ τὸν τῆς πίστεως βέβαιον δρόμον κατήντησαν, καὶ ἔλαβον γέρας γενναῖον αἱ ἀσθε νεῖς τῷ σώματι. c. 6.

How many of the Apostles are said to have suffered Martyrdom? How do you account for the assertion of Origen: Ολίγοι κατὰ καιροὺς καὶ σφόδρα εὐαρίθμητοι ὑπὲρ τῆς Χριστιανῶν θεοσεβείας τεθνήκασι. (Cont. Cels. III.) ? When was the treatise against Celsus written ?

Επιστάμεθα πολλοὺς ἐν ἡμῖν παραδεδωκότας ἑαυτοὺς εἰς δεσμα, ὅπως ἑτέρους λυτρώσονται. πολλοὶ ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν εἰς δουλείαν, καὶ λαβόντες τὰς τιμὰς αὐτῶν, ἑτέρους ἐψώμισαν. c. 55.

Illustrate this by historical facts. Translate:

Προσδέχεσθε οὖν αὐτὸν ἐν Κυρίῳ μετὰ πασής χαρᾶς, καὶ τοὺς τοιούτους ἐντίμους ἔχετε· ὅτι διὰ τὸ ἔργον τοῦ Χριστοῦ μέχρι θανάτου ἤγγισε, παραβουλευσάμενος τῇ ψυχῇ, ἵνα ἀναπληρώσῃ τὸ ὑμῶν ὑστέ ρημα τῆς πρός με λειτουργίας. (Phil. ii. 29, 30.)

(1) Another reading is παραβολευσάμενος. Which appears to be right? Who were called Parabolani in the early Christian Church? What is the meaning of the expression?

8. Translate accurately the following passages :

(1) Διὰ τούτου ἀτενίζομεν εἰς τὰ ὕψη τῶν οὐρανῶν, διὰ τούτου ἐνοπτριζόμεθα τὴν ἄμωμον καὶ ὑπερτάτην ὄψιν αὐτοῦ· διὰ τούτου ἠνεῷχθησαν ἡμῶν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ τῆς καρδίας· διὰ τούτου ἡ ἀσύνετος καὶ ἐσκοτωμένη διάνοια ἡμῶν ἀναθάλλει εἰς τὸ θαυμαστὸν αὐτοῦ φῶς· διὰ τούτου ἠθέλησεν ὁ Δεσπότης τῆς ἀθάνατου γνώσεως ἡμᾶς γεύσασθαι· ὃς ὧν ἀπαύγασμα τῆς μεγαλωσύνης αὐτοῦ, τοσούτῳ μείζων ἐστὶν ἀγγέλων, ὅσῳ διαφορώτερον ὄνομα κεκληρονόμηκεν. c. 36.

(2) Οὐ πανταχοῦ, ἀδελφοὶ, προσφέρονται θυσίαι ἐνδελεχισμοῦ, ἡ εὐχῶν, ἢ περὶ ἁμαρτίας καὶ πλημμελίας, ἀλλ ̓ ἢ ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ μόνῃ κᾀκεῖ δὲ οὐκ ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ προσφέρεται, ἀλλ ̓ ἤ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ ναοῦ πρὸς τὸ θυσιαστήριον, μωμοσκοπηθὲν τὸ προσφερόμενον διὰ τοῦ ἀρχιερέως καὶ τῶν προειρημένων λειτουργῶν. c. 41.

1. ENUMERATE the Semitic Dialects. Which of these cannot be written without the vowel points? Mention another marked peculiarity of that Dialect.

2. What is the probable date of the vowel points? What authority have they in determining the meaning of a passage?

3. What kind of changes have been produced in the Text by the introduction of the vowel points?

הלוא אם תיטיב שאת ואם לא תיטיב לפתח חטאת רבץ. .4

Point this, so as to correspond with the LXX, who read

Οὐκ ἐὰν ὀρθῶς προσενέγκῃς, ὀρθῶς δὲ μὴ διέλῃς, ἥμαρτες; ἡσύχασον.

5. From what passage in this book may we conclude that there were two dialects spoken by the descendants of Terah before the migration into Egypt?

6. Write the third person sing. mas. of the present tense, in the fifth and sixth conjugations, of the following verbs:

בוא, יצא ירד לקח, נגד.

ירד ילד נגש נתן.

7. Write the infin. of the 1st and 2nd conjugations of

8. Add the pronoun him to the whole of the past and present tenses, in the first conjugation, of 7.

9. Add all the affixes to the following nouns:

אב, אזן, בגד, בית, בתספר, עבד.

10. Translate into HEBREW:

(a) They chose us. (b) We came home. (c) Her brother touched me. (d) Where is the man of whom she spoke? (e) How shall we know where he has hid himself? (f) His mother died when she was in her sixty-third year. (g) They wandered in the desert; and, when the water failed them, they killed one of their two camels. (h) We heard him tell his brother that their father mourned over the loss of his youngest son, who was the only child of his beloved wife.

11. Point the following passage:

ותאמר שרה צחק עשה לי אלהים כל השמע ,Beginning קרא למקים ההוא באר שבע כי שם נשבעו שניהם : ,Ending

TRANSLATE into ENGLISH, adding such notes as you think needful:
GENESIS, Chapters XXIII. XLIII.

Give an analysis of every verb in Chap. XXIII.

THE ARTICLES OF RELIGION.

1. WHAT were the principal sources to which Cranmer was indebted for the Articles of 1552? With what authority were the present XXXIX. Articles set forth?

2. To whom is the first use of the term Trinity ascribed? When did the term receive synodical authority? Prove 1st, the Unity of the Godhead; 2ndly, that the Father is God, the Son God, and the Holy Ghost God; 3rdly, that these two truths are not contradictions to each other, for that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are but one God, not three Gods.

3. How is the word μovoyevns explained by the Arians, Eunomians, and Socinians? Enumerate the most important controversies concerning the incarnation of the Son. What was Nestorius accused of teaching? By what council were his tenets condemned? Shew that our Saviour was perfect man, and that there was need of a propitiatory sacrifice to reconcile God to man.

4. Shew that the following texts do not invalidate the doctrine of the Anglican Church respecting the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for salvation.

John xvi. 12.

Acts i. 3.

2 Thess. ii. 15.

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

Being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our Epistle.

State briefly our grounds for believing that the writings of the New Testament are divinely inspired. Adduce the arguments in favour of the Canonicity of the Epistle of St James.

5. Why was the Apostles' Creed so named? What is the internal evidence of the date of the Athanasian Creed? Neither confounding the Persons nor dividing the Substance. What classes of heretics were guilty of these errors.

Write out Art. XI. (Of the Justification of Man). What testimony to this doctrine of Justification do we find in the Fathers? What was meant by meritum de congruo, meritum de condigno, attritio, contritio ?

6. Shew that our Lord's words to the young man (Mark x. 21), One thing thou lackest go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, &c. were a precept, not a counsel. The Church of Rome hath erred in matters of faith. (Art. XIX.) Briefly enumerate these matters.

7. Who is the first writer who speaks of seven Sacraments? What was the opinion of the early Fathers respecting the efficacy of the Sacra

ments? State the respective views of Zuingle, Luther, and Calvin on the same point. What was the general view of Baptismal regeneration held by the Fathers?

8. When was the doctrine of Transubstantiation sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church? Translate:-" Nam si Jesus Christus, Dominus et Deus noster ipse est summus sacerdos Dei Patris; et sacrificium Patri se ipsum primus obtulit, et hoc fieri in sui commemorationem præcepit, utique ille sacerdos vice Christi vere fungitur, qui id quod Christus fecit imitatur; et sacrificium verum et plenum tunc offert in Ecclesia Deo Patri, si sic incipiat offerre secundum quod ipsum Christum videat obtulisse." From what author is this passage taken? What inference do the Roman Catholics attempt to draw from it? How do Protestants understand the passage? Shew that the Roman Catholic doctrine of the propitiatory sacrifice of the mass is opposed to the teaching of St Paul.

9. Who are the reputed authors of the first and second books of Homilies? Shew that England was not in the Patriarchate of Rome.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE FIRST THREE
CENTURIES.

1. MENTION the principal sources of Ecclesiastical History. In what respect are they mainly deficient? What is the chief use of Ecclesiastical History?

2. Translate, Euseb. ii. 17 : Ὃν καὶ λόγος ἔχει κατα Κλαύδιον ἐπὶ τῆς Ῥώμης εἰς ὁμιλίαν ἐλθεῖν Πέτρῳ, τοῖς ἐκεῖσε τότε κηρύττοντι, καὶ οὐκ ἀπεικὸς ἂν εἴη τοῦτό γε, ἐπεὶ καὶ ὅ φαμεν αὐτῷ σύγγραμμα εἰς ὕστε ρον καὶ μετὰ χρόνους αὐτῷ πεπονημένον, σαφῶς τοὺς εἰσέτι νῦν καὶ εἰς ἡμᾶς πεφυλαγμένους τῆς ἐκκλησίας περιέχει κανόνας.

ov] Supply the antecedent. What evidence does this passage afford of the existence of a most primitive Ritual in the Church? What reason have we for supposing that our Lord after his resurrection instructed the Apostles in Ecclesiastical matters?

3. Enumerate the Apostolic Fathers. How far did their ignorance of the Hebrew language disqualify the early Fathers from arguing with the Jews? Arrange in chronological order the Greek and Latin Ecclesiastical writers of the second century.

4. State the occasion of Justin Martyr's Apology. What was the external condition of the Church under Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Alexander Severus, Philip? Explain the terms Sacrificati, Thurificati, Libellatici, Libellos pacis.

5. What changes in the government of the Church appear to have taken place during the third century? Into how many schools may the Gnostics be divided? Give a brief view of the system of Valentinus.

What question was the great source of heresy in the early centuries of the Church? Give a short account of the Sabellian heresy, and the Novatian schism.

6. Give evidence of the great extension of Christianity before the time of Constantine. Mention the principal points which were decided at the Council of Nice.

HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND.

1. DESCRIBE the state of the English Church at the time of Wycliffe. How did he attack the corrupt doctrines and practices of the age? What opposition did he meet with from Rome and in England? What different estimates have been formed of his character and opinions?

2. When and for what reason did Henry VIII. receive the title of "Defender of the Faith"? Explain accurately the connexion of political events in his reign with the progress of the Reformation. What do you understand by the Royal Supremacy in the Church of England?

3. Give the date of the first session of the Council of Trent. On what grounds do we refuse to acknowledge its authority? Trace the progress of the Reformation during the reign of Edward VI. Who was Martin Bucer? In what particulars did his opinions differ from those of Cranmer ?

4. What was the year of Queen Elizabeth's accession? Whom did she appoint to the see of Canterbury? When she required the oath of Supremacy to be taken by the clergy, what was the result? What was the Disputation at Westminster, and how did it terminate?

5. Give a succinct account of the history of the Translation of the Bible into the English tongue.

6. Give a short account of Bishop Jewel's Apology; and explain clearly on what principles you consider the English Reformation to have been conducted.

I.

HISTORICAL BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.

a. "BEGINNING at Moses, and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." Luke xxiv. 27. What "things" are there "concerning" Christ in the history of the world before the flood?

b. What were the several subjects of promise to Abraham? And on what various occasions during his life were they given and repeated?

C.

Professor Blunt writes: "I see the Promise all Genesis through." By what sins recorded in Genesis, i. e. by what abuses of the Promise do you detect its presence?