Ans. 26-John 10:27-29 is plain as divine love would make it. The Lord gives unto His people eternal life, and they shall never perish. There is no condition here, and we must make none. If, as people say, they could pluck themselves out of His hands, then they would perish; but He says they shall not. There is no other Scripture that clashes with this in the least. Falling from grace in Galatians, is abandoning it as one's ground before God, as the Galatians were doing,-adding the law to the gospel,-the very thing those do who urge the text so much. Let us take "Scripture as it stands, and we shall be safe; where it speaks of conditions, insist on them; where we find a glorious unconditional promise, receive it simply.

Ans. 27.-Acts. 2:18, like 21:9, shows undoubtedly that women might have prophetic gift, and i Cor. 11:5 prescribes as to its use. i Cor. 14:34 shows that it was not to be in the public assemblies where the whole church came together. There is nothing to forbid a women's prayer-meeting, but they must do nothing un-suited to the modesty becoming women, or the place which nature gave them (comp. 11:14).

Ans. 28.-Heb. 13:17 should be as in the margin "those who guide you." Of course this must be by the Word, or it is not real guidance.

Ans. 29-We must surely take care in whatever we put our hand to that we have the authority of Scripture for it. If in any thing we do, or in the way we do it, we violate Scripture to secure what we suppose greater good, we do indeed adopt the terrible principle, " Let us do evil that good may come." On the other hand, our hearts are not right if they do not own and delight in what is of God wherever we may find it, though it may be mixed with much that we could not ourselves take part in. Our prayers, at least, are every-where due, and often we can be free to give practical help to what on the whole we can believe to be of God, while sorrowing over and refusing for ourselves what may be mixed up with it. Here we need to be much before God in order to find our way in times so difficult as the present.

Ans. 30.-As to Deut. 33:12, another has said of these blessings, that they show " the relationship of Jehovah with the people as in possession of the land;" and as to the verse in question, that "it would seem that the place of Benjamin, in relation with Jehovah, was in his favor, being kept near Him, as has been the case with that tribe within whose limits was Jerusalem."

Ans. 31.-In Isa. 26:19 it should read "My corpses shall arise." The word for "corpses" is a "word without a plural, but frequently used in a plural sense, as in chap. 5:25," says Delitzsch. The passage is to be interpreted, no doubt, as Ezek. 37:and other passages, of Israel's resurrection as a nation. God claims them, dead as they are, as His, and quickens them from the dead.

Ans 32.-In Matt. 24:28, the "eagles" are the executioners of divine judgment, which find the corrupting object wherever it may be (comp. Luke 17:37). "They shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity."

Ans. 33.-In Jno. 2:17, the "zeal of Thine house" is surely Christ's zeal for what was the habitation of Jehovah.
Ans. 34.-2 Tim. 2:12 is a general principle, and of wide application. In the full sense the denial of Christ would be apostasy, and the " us " take in all that profess to be Christians; but there are important applications to those that are truly Christians, who, in proportion to their open confession of Him or not, find correspondingly or not His open countenance. I do not doubt that the boldest confessors are (if they be real) the happiest possessors (comp. i Pet. 4:14).

Ans. 35.-" Eternal life " in Rom. 2:7 is not a principle of life possessed here, but a state into which men go finally as in Matt. 25:46. It is a life which they will live, not the life by which they live it.

Ans. 36.-Luke 14:26:"If a man come to Me, and hate not his father and mother," simply means that he must be prepared to act as if he did this; there was to be no balancing between Christ's claims and those of the very nearest relationship.