to peculiar individuality in the defence, and the linguistic analysis which we shall now make will conclusively settle the source of the composition. We must point out here in continuation that, as in the rest of the work, all the quotations in the speech are from the Septuagint, and that the author follows that version even when it does not fairly represent the original.(1) We may now proceed to analyse the language of the whole episode from vi. 9 to the end of the seventh chapter, in order to discover what linguistic analogy it bears to the rest of the Acts and to the third Synoptic, which for the sake of brevity we shall simply designate "Luke." With the exception of a very few words in general use, every word employed in the section will be found in the following analysis, based upon Bruder's 'Concordance,'(2) and which is arranged in the order of the verses, although for greater clearness the whole is divided into categories. We shall commence with a list of the words in this section which are not elsewhere used in the New Testament. They are as follows:--[------], vi. 11; [------]t vi. 12; [------], vii. 16;(3) [------], vii. 19, but [------], occurs several times in Acts, see below, vii. 21; [------], vii. 24; [------], vii. 26; [------], vii. 45, this word, which is common amongst {165} Greek writers,(1) is used in lxx. 2 Chron. xxxi. 12; [------], vii. 52. These nine words are all that can strictly be admitted as [------], but there are others, which, although not found in any other part of the Acts or of the Gospel, occur in other writings of the New Testament, and which must here be noted. [------], vi. 11, occurring 1 Tim. i. 13, 2 Tim. iii. 2, 2 Pet. iL 11, Rev. xiii. 5; [------], however, is used four times in Acts, thrice in Luke, and frequently elsewhere, and [------] in Luke v. 21. [------] vi. 13, used Rev. ii. 2, xxi. 8; [------], vi. 14, Rom. i. 23, ' 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52, Gal. iv. 20, Heb. i. 12, almost purely a Pauline word; [------], vii. 5, elsewhere fourteen times; [------], vii. 16, also Gal. i. 6, Heb. vii. 12, xi. 5 twice (lxx. Gen. v. 24), Jude 4; [------], vii. 24, also 2 Pet. ii. 7; [------], vii. 26, also John vi. 52, 2 Tim. ii. 24, James iv. 2; [------], vii. 38, also Rom. iii. 2, Heb. v. 12, 1 Pet. iv. 11; [------], vii. 39, also 2 Cor. ii. 9, Phil. ii. 8; [------], vii. 53, also Rom. xiii. 2, cf. Gal. iii. 19, but the writer makes use of [------], see vii. 44, below; [------], vii. 58, also Rom. xiii. 12, Eph. iv. 22, 25, Col. iii. 8, Heb. xii. 1, James i. 21, 1 Pet, ii. 1. If we add these ten words to the preceding, the proportion of [------] is by no means excessive for the 67 verses, especially when the peculiarity of the subject is considered, and it is remembered that the number of words employed in the third Gospel, for instance, which are not elsewhere found, greatly exceeds that of the other Gospels, and that this linguistic richness is characteristic of the author.