In illustration of the powerful expression, ("darkness has blinded his eyes") the present writer quoted a striking passage from Professor Drummond, who adduces a parallel for the Christian's loss of the spiritual faculty, by the atrophy of organs which takes place in moles, and in the fish in dark caverns. (_Speaker's Commentary, in loc._) But as regards the mole at least, a great observer of Nature entirely denies the alleged atrophy. Mr. Buckland quotes Dr. Lee in a paper, in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, where he says,--"the eye of the mole presents us with an instance of an organ which is rudimentary, not by arrest of development, but through disuse, aided perhaps by natural selection." But Mr. Buckland asserts that "the same great Wisdom who made the mole's teeth the most beautiful set of insectivorous teeth among animals, also made its eye fit for the work it has to do. The mole has been designed to prey upon earthworms; they will not come up to the surface to him, so he must go down into the earth to them. For this purpose his eyes are fitted." (_Life of F. Buckland_, pp. 247, 248). FOOTNOTES: [167] "Nomen facile supplent credentes, plenum pectus habentes memoriâ Domini."--_Bengel_. [168] Εκεινος in our Epistle belongs to Christ in every place but one where it occurs (1 John ii. 6, iii. 3, 5, 7, 16, iv. 17; cf. John i. 18, ii. 21). It is very much equivalent to our reverent usage of printing the pronoun which refers to Christ with a capital letter. [169] Matt. vi. 45. [170] δοξας βλασφημουντες (2 Peter ii. 10; Jude v. 8). [171] _Poems by Matthew Arnold_ ("Rugby Chapel," Nov. 1857), vol. ii., pp. 251, 255. [172] ὁς μονος συνεπαθησεν πλανωμενω κοσμω. _Acta Paul. et Thec._ 16, _Acta. Apost. Apoc._ 47. Edit. Tischendorf. [173] _On Liberty._ John Stuart Mill (chap. iii.). [174] John viii. 12-35. For Apostolic usage of the word, see Acts i. 21; Rom. vi. 4; Ephes. ii. 10; Col. iii. 7. [175] John vii. 1. [176] "Ambulando docebat."--_Bretschneider_. [177] John xiii. 1-6. [178] Ἱνα ποιω ... και τελειωσω (John iv. 34). SECTION III. (2) GREEK. LATIN.