אלו, לולי, לו d.-Condition Introduced by (d) 1.—With Imperfect in Protasis. 2.-With Jussive or Imperative Ezek. xiv. 15. Imperfect, 4 belongs here, reading for * In these and similar passages has come to be equal to a particle of wishing utinam. Perhaps verb in Job vi. 2 should be considered a Jussive. 3.-With Perfect in Protasis after or its compounds. fect in both clauses. It is probably a textual error for the latter word. Ct. Ewald, Lehrbuch, 805. Note 2. Job xvi. 4. Imperfect (w) 4 in the sense of with Per An examination of the forms used in the Apodosis will give us the following Summary: VERBAL FORMS IN APODOSIS. 9 4 5 O O 75 о 38 4 33 3 3 4 2 I Dr. Pick's paper will be found in the December proceedings. 1,126 173 832 1222 52 69 Journal, December, 1882.* The New Testament Witness to the Author ship of Old Testament Books. BY PROF. FRANCIS BROWN. A careful examination of this subject seems to be demanded by the conflicting and equally positive statements current in regard to it. E. g.: Turpie, (The New Testament View of the Old, London, 1872), who has given the matter the fullest consecutive treatment, assumes, almost without argument, that the language of the New Testament is decisive of questions of authorship, in the case of many important books of the Old Testament. Thus, (p. 124), when speaking of Rom. x. 20, 21,-"Isaiah is very bold and saith "—the citation being from Is. lxv. 1, 2,-he remarks: "Paul thus lets us know the source whence the quotations are drawn. They are taken from Isaiah. Isaiah spake them." On p. 130, he says: "The formula Saveto Aéyst, David says,' followed by quotations from several Psalms, viz., xvi., xxxii., lxix, and cx., shows us that he was the writer of them." On p. 158, we read: "From our Lord's words, then, 'Have ye not read in the Book of Moses at the bush,' [Ma. xii. 26], I infer that Moses is set forth as the author of the Pentateuch. Similar remarks occur elsewhere in Turpie's book. Prof. W. H. Green, D. D., says, (Moses and the Prophets, p. 345): "The history and legislation of the Pentateuch lies at the basis of all the subsequent history of the Old Testament. It is presupposed in * The paper of the Rev. Dr. Craven has not been received. |