not have proceeded;-unless the pledge so given had been thoroughly redeemed by the death of Christ as an atoning victim, it could not have been completed;-and it is obvious that he who thus consecrates and presents acceptable worshippers to God, is a high-priest. As all these offices are virtually united in that of a reconciler of hostile parties through the medium of a sacrificial covenant, the term diadeμévos, which in this sense is generally applicable to every covenant-victim, is peculiarly applicable to Christ. The texts recently quoted from the Septuagint show that the corresponding verb is occasionally there used in reference to the office of a mediator; and both the verb and its participles are often employed by the ancient Greek authors in the sense of composing animosities, and reconciling parties who have been at variance. Among the meanings assigned to the middle verb diarídeμai in Stephens's Thesaurus, are-componere, ad concordiam reducere, concorditer constituere, placare; -among those mentioned in Donnegan's Lexicon,—to conciliate, to reconcile, to accommodate a difference ;-and, by the evidence thus supplied, the use of this term by the apostle Paul in the sense here assigned may, therefore, be regarded as sufficiently explained. At all events, it is far better to admit that in such a use of the term the apostle committed a slight irregularity, if it really is one, than to consign the whole of a most important passage to obscurity, or absurdity. Nor is this view of the passage now proposed for the first time, having long since been adopted by several eminent authors, and among others by Mr. Taylor, in his well-known edition and continuation of Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, as appears from the following extract, which will form a suitable conclusion to the present remarks:-"Now, where there is a . . . COVENANT, the death of . . . . the CONFIRMER OF THE COVENANT is necessary; for a . . . . covenant is of no authority while the confirmer of the . . . covenant is living: '—i. e. while that beast was not slain, between whose divided parts the persons covenanting were to pass, the covenant wanted the most solemn token of its ratification." *-But, as in a modern translation of Scripture such expressions as covenant-confirmer, or covenant-ratificator, would be harsh, and scarcely intelligible, the term COVENANT-VICTIM, which is nearly equivalent, and actually implied, is here substituted. * Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, edited by Taylor; Article Covenant;-also Fragments, vol. i. pp. 205-210, 539-542;-Evangelical Register for 1830; vol. iv. pp. 69–73, 103-109 LIST OF AUTHORS AND WORKS, TO WHICH REFERENCE IS MADE IN DR. STROUD'S TREATISE. A. ABERCROMBIE (Dr. John), Cases of Rupture of the Heart;-in the Trans. of the Medico-Chirurg. Society of Edinburgh, vol. i. 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