gladness, think you, you will be filled? Or how will you love him, who beforehand so loved you? [------]. But if you love, you will be an _imitator of his kindness_," &c. [------].(1) This is claimed as a reference to John iii. 16 f. "For God so loved the world [------] that he gave his only begotten son [------] that whosoever believeth in him might not perish," &c. 17. "For God sent not his son into the world that he might judge the world," &c. [------]. Here, again, a sentence is patched together by taking fragments from the beginning and middle of a passage, and finding in them a superficial resemblance to words in the Gospel. We find parallels for the passage, however, in the Epistles from which the unknown writer obviously derives so much of his matter. Rom. v. 8: "But God giveth proof of his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. 10.... through the death of his son." Chap. viii. 8, "God sending his son, &c. 29.... Them he also foreordained to bear the likeness of the image of his son, &c. 32. He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all," &c. 39. (Nothing can separate us) "from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Gal. ii. 20.... "by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me." Chap. iv. 4. "God sent out his son [------] .... that he might redeem," &c. Ephes. ii. 4. "But God being rich in mercy because of his great love wherewith he loved us. 5. Even when we were dead in our trespasses hath quickened us together with Christ. 7. That he might show forth the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness [------] towards us in Christ Jesus." Chap. iv. 32. "Be ye kind [------] one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God also in Christ forgave you."* Chap. v. 1. "Beye therefore imitators [------] of God as beloved children. 2. And walk {367} in love [------] even as Christ also loved you [------], and gave himself for us," &c., &c. Titus iii. 4. "But when the kindness [------] and love towards men [------] of our Saviour God was manifested. 5... according to his mercy he saved us.... 6.... through Jesus Christ our Saviour. 7. That being justified by his grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of Eternal life." The words: "Or how will you love him who so beforehand loved you?" [------], Canon Westcott refers to 1 John iv. 19, "We love God(2) because he first loved us" [------]. The linguistic differences, however, and specially the substitution of [------], distinctly oppose the claim. The words are a perfectly natural comment upon the words in Ephesians, from which it is obvious the writer derived other parts of the sentence, as the striking word "kindness" [------], which is commonly used in the Pauline Epistles, but nowhere else in the New Testament,(3) shows.