[224] "Had this writer reminded us that the New Testament Greek is a Greek of different age from that of the classical writers; had he simply warned us that we must not press our Attic Greek scholarship too far, but study the Alexandrian Greek of the Septuagint, Philo, &c. in order to ascertain the exact meaning of the words and phrases of the writers of the New Testament;--still more, if, as the result of such study on his own part, he had offered us some well-digested observations on the use of tenses, articles, or particles in the sacred writings;--he would have done some service. But this talk about 'excessive attention to the article,' and 'particles being often mere excrescences of style,' is of no effect except to expose the writer to ridicule. It sounds as if he had been accustomed to lay down the law to an admiring audience of 'clever young men,' and had forgotten that there were still 'men in Denmark' who understood Greek."--_Some Remarks on Essays and Reviews_, prefixed to Dr. Moberly's 'Sermons on the Beatitudes.' (1861.) pp. lxii.-iii. [225] _Quarterly Review_, No. 217, p. 298. [226] _Quarterly Review_, No. 217, pp. 265-6. [227] St. Matth. ii .1, 22. [228] St. Luke ii. 41. [229] See Sermon VII., pp. 222-232. [230] _Essays and Reviews_, p. 109. [231] See Dr. Moberly, (as before,) p. lv.-lx. [232] _Edinburgh Review_, (April, 1861,) p. 476. [233] The Rev. H. B. Wilson says,--"If those who distinguish themselves in Science and Literature cannot, in a scientific and literary age, be effectually and cordially attached to the Church of their nation, they must sooner or later be driven into a position of hostility to it." (p. 198.) This is one of the many notes, if not of "concert and comparison," at least of _intense sympathy_ between the Essayists and Reviewers. [234] _Quarterly Review_, No. 217, p. 266. [235] See at pp. 351, 352, 357, 358, 361, 365, 367, 413, &c. [236] _Quarterly Review_, as before, p. 282.