In theology, we observe the publication, by ALBERT WESSEL VON HENGEL, of _Commentarius Perpetuus in Prioris Pauli ad Corinthios Epistolæ Caput Quintum Decimum cum Epistola ad Winerum, Theol. Lips. Haag._ (Boedeker in Rotterdam). In this book we perceive that the important fifteenth chapter of the Letter to the Corinthians is philologically treated with true Dutch thoroughness and remarkable erudition, but that the results to which he comes are often untenable, and that a satisfactory decision as to the proposed dogmatic questions, such as advanced theological science requires, is not given. The peculiar views of the author as to the aim or object of the chapter have also had an effect on the explanation of many passages. It is asserted, for instance, _a la_ Bush, that Paul does not speak of the resurrection of the body, but that he means by this resurrection the return of all men into life, or immortality; and regarding this, has in view only those who admit Christ, and their future happiness; and that even verse forty-nine contains only a comparison of the _moral_ condition of Christians in this and a better life. Yet notwithstanding this he finds himself compelled to admit, by the fifty-second verse, that the same bodies which we have here on earth, again return to life. By the [Greek: parousia] of Christ (v. 23) he understands _earthly life_, and by [Greek: oi tou Christou en tê parousia autou], those Christians who already believed on him while yet on earth, and by the [Greek: telos], not the end of the world with its universal resurrection and judgment, but the resurrection of the later Christians. The oft-repeated [Greek: speiretai] (v. 43) he translates by it is begotten or generated, and understands it as referring to an entry into earthly life, and that the [Greek: choikos] of the forty-seventh verse refers to the earthly _disposition_ or _inclination_, and the [Greek: ex ournou] and [Greek: epouranios] to that of the heavenly. * * * * *