CONTRIBUTORS TO THE EXPOSITOR. THE VERY REV. THE DEAN OF CANTERBURY. THE VERY REV. THE DEAN OF PETERBOROUGH. REV. CANON FARRAR, D.D., F.R.S. REV. PROFESSOR PLUMPTRE, D.D. REV. W. SANDAY, D.D. REV. J. RAWSON LUMBY, D.D. REV. RAYNER WINTER BOTHAM, M.A., B.Sc. REV. PRINCIPAL TULLOCH, D.D. REV. PROFESSOR A. B. DAVIDSON, D.D. REV. PROFESSOR W. MILLIGAN, D.D. REV. PROFESSOR W. ROBERTSON SMITH, M.A. REV. PROFESSOR A. B. BRUCE, D.D. REV. JAMES MORISON, D.D. REV. J. OSWALD DYKES, D.D. REV. PRINCIPAL A. M. FAIRBAIRN, D.D. PROFESSOR JOHN MASSIE, M.A. REV. HENRY BURTON, M.A. MR. R. W. DALE, M.A. REV. P. THOMSON, M.A. REV. JOSEPH AGAR BEET. REV. S. A. TIPPLE. REV. HENRY ALLON, D.D. REV. ALEXANDER RALEIGH, D.D. THE EXPOSITOR. EDITED BY THE REV. SAMUEL COX. VOLUME X. London: HODDER & STOUGHTON, 27, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLXXIX. 17 THE EXPOSITOR. THE RHETORIC OF ST. PAUL. JOSEPHUS, in an interesting passage at the close of his Antiquities, after boasting with characteristic selfcomplacency of his unequalled attainments in all Jewish learning, adds that he had also taken great pains to acquire the learning of the Greeks, and a grammatical mastery of the Greek language. He admits, however, that long familiarity with his native Aramaic had prevented him from gaining an accurate pronunciation of Greek, and tells us, by way of excuse, that his nation generally discouraged the acquisition of many languages, or the attempt to adorn their discourses with smooth periods — accomplishments which they disdained to share with slaves and freedmen. But the position of St. Paul was very different from that of Josephus. The astute Jewish politician had been trained from early childhood up to the age of twenty-six in Palestine, and mainly in Jerusalem; and it is evident from his silence that he had not, during that time, been a pupil of Gamaliel, the only Rabbi who was sufficiently liberal to encourage, or even to tolerate, "the wisdom of Javan." He therefore grew up in the very head-quarters of the Aramaic dialect; and |