The Camp was a square plot of ground, measuring a quarter of a mile each way. It was placed, legally speaking, on the outside of the city, so as not to wound the pride of the citizens; but as the wall was drawn on the outside of the camp, it was, in a military sense,

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within the city, and the troops were thus at hand to overawe mobs and to quell riots. It was governed by the captain of the Pretorian guard, and to his charge Paul, with the other prisoners, was delivered; and in or near this camp the Apostle dwelt with the soldier that kept him.

His preaching within the Pretorian Camp is mentioned in Philip. i, 13, where the Authorised Version calls it the "palace."

1 CORINTHIANS, XI. 10.

"For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels,"

The meaning of this verse is open to conjecture. The word "angels" should be "preachers," or messengers from heaven, as the preachers of the good tidings are called Evangelists. The word "power" has been supposed to be the name of a veil, at first given to the queen's veil, and afterwards to that of all ladies.

The above coin and that on the next page are of two of the Alexandrian queens, to which many Roman coins

could be added, and are given to show that the veil was the usual headdress of a queen, as the ribbon was of a king. In the Synagogue the men were separated from the women, hence veils were not needed on their account ;

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but, nevertheless, "because of the preachers," who could see both men and women, modesty required that the women should wear the veil,—which was, perhaps, called a "power."

1 CORINTHIANS, XV. 44.

"It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body."

The real Egyptian opinion about the resurrection to a future life is shown in the Note on Acts, xxiii. 8, where the soul is bringing back life and breath to the embalmed body. But some few Egyptians held the opinion expressed by the Apostle in our text, which is

represented in the accompanying drawing, from a mummycase in the museum of Dr. Lee at Hartwell. The large female figure, whose body makes an arch, resting upon her feet and her hands, is the goddess Neith, and signifies the vault of heaven. Two figures of the god Knef, the spirit, are seated on perches, and like the goddess are

painted blue, the colour of the sky. In the middle is a man in the act of falling down dead. He is coloured red, like the Egyptians. By the side of him stands a man coloured blue. This is his spiritual body, which suffers no death, but rises to heaven when the natural body falls to the ground.

2 CORINTHIANS, I. 11.

"Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf."

The word "persons" should be translated "mouths," -though meaning, more literally, " mouthpieces." The custom among the Greek actors of wearing masks on the stage led to the expression that when one person spoke for another he was his mouthpiece. The Authorised Version should also be corrected in chap. ii. 10, of this Epistle. We there read, "For if I forgave anything, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ,"-literally, in the mask of Christ, wearing the mouthpiece of Christ, or speaking for Christ.

The above persona, or masks, are from paintings on the walls of the buried city of Pompeii, in Gell's Pompeiana.