A SEVENFOLD VIEW.

In his sermon in Acts 3:, Peter is led of the Spirit to speak of the Lord in four ways, answering to the four gospels, and then in three ways taken from Old-Testament predictions. The four are these:ver. 13-His "Servant "(not "Son"), as in Mark; ver. 14-"the Holy One," as in Luke (Luke 1:35-" That Holy thing which shall be born of thee"); "and the Just," as in Matthew (Matt. 27:19-"Have thou nothing to do with that Just Man); ver. 15-"the Prince (or Author) of life," as in John. These characters of the One crucified bring home to the people their guilt in a special way. But in ver. 18-22 and 25, He is presented from the Old Testament as the Christ, the Prophet, and the Seed. The fourfold presentation sets forth, as the number indicates, manifestation in the world, the threefold reference, the divine purpose as announced in prophecy. The fourfold presentation begins with words that tell of what God has done_"The God of our fathers hath glorified His Servant Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied" (5:13); the threefold prediction, with "Those things which God before had showed by the mouth of all His prophets" (5:18), -that is, the announcement of His purpose. This shows the perfection of Scripture-the perfection of the relationship of its parts, and how each word and group of words and titles falls into place, not only with exactness as in what we call the laws of nature, but with precious instructiveness, according to the meaning of numbers, more and more plainly manifest. E. S. L.