GENERAL DIVINITY EXAMINATION.

SENIOR CLASS.

BIBLICAL CRITICISM.

1. The Divine authority of the Old Testament Scriptures may be established by two distinct methods?

2. How do you show that our Lord and His Apostles recognised the "Jewish Canon," and it exclusively?

3. The fact that some of the Fathers include portions of the Apocrypha among the Canonical Books may be accounted for in two ways?

4. Cardinal Cajetan's solution of this difficulty?

5. What was the main argument on which the “Purists” relied? Show its futility.

6. Give a summary of the proof of the Inspiration of the Written Word.

7. Discuss Mr. Jowett's Canon of Interpretation.

8. Explain briefly the Notation adopted in the modern critical editions of the New Testament.

9. Admitting the alleged antiquity of Cod. x, what circumstance invests it with peculiar value?

10. What is the evidence furnished by this MS. in reference to the disputed passages, Matt. xxviii. 9; Luke, xxii. 43, 44; John, i. 18; John, v. 4; Acts, xx. 28; 1 Tim. iii. 16?

II. The Douay Version is in some passages more accurate than our Authorized Version; how is this to be accounted for?

12. Give instances from the Greek Testament of the importance of observing the exact force of the Tenses-the Present, the Imperfect, the Aorist, and the Perfect.

ARTICLES AND LITURGY.

1. What formularies of faith were published by authority during the reign of Henry VIII.?

2. Which of Edward's forty-two Articles were omitted, and what new ones were added, in the Elizabethan revision?

3. From what source was the disputed clause of the twentieth Article derived? State the evidence for and against the authority of this clause; and for and against the authority of the twenty-ninth Article.

4. Give an account of the Irish Articles; and discuss the assertion that they are still of authority.

5. What additions to the ninth Article were proposed by the Westminster Divines ?

6. What is the Roman Catholic theory as to the nature of Original Sin, and as to the effects of Baptism?

7. With respect to the safety of unbaptized infants, what differences are there between the present and former language of our Church?

8. What antiquity can be established for the method of conditional baptism?

9. Enumerate the principal differences between the Communion rite of the Books of 1549 and 1552, and discuss whether the changes touch any essential point.

10. What important Rubrics were introduced into the Communion Service at the last Revision?

11. From what source was the Rubric derived which directs a new consecration if the consecrated bread or wine be spent before all have communicated?

12. What difference is there between the Greeks and Latins as to the words essential to consecration? Discuss the argument founded on the place the words of institution occupy in ancient liturgies.

13. How does the American prayer of consecration differ from ours? From what source was it derived?

14. What Antiphons have been translated and retained in our Prayer Book? Where have we an Antiphon in connexion with a Psalm ?

15. Give an account of the literary history of Chrysostom's Epistle to Cæsarius. What use is made of it in controversy?

16. Is the doctrine of Transubstantiation opposed to the evidence of our senses?

17. When was the name Purgatory first given by authority to the intermediate state?

18. What differences between Greeks and Latins on the subject of the intermediate state did the Council of Florence attempt to reconcile, and on what terms?

19. Does St. Augustine's prayer for his mother prove that he believed in a Purgatory?

20. What were the steps by which saint worship was introduced? 21. Burnet attempts to show that the Council of Trent approves of more than the ora pro nobis; with what success?

22. What practical difference is there between asking for the prayers of a dead and of a living saint?

23. What use has been made in controversy of the story of the death of Serapion?

24. How do Romanists and Lutherans differ on the subject of venial and mortal sin?

JUNIOR CLASS.

PROFESSOR'S LECTURES.

1. State distinctly how far the à posteriori argument goes in establishing the principles of Theism.

2. Contrast Kant's estimate of this argument with that assigned to it by Professor Jowett.

3. In a popular reply to a Pantheist, what principle should you first of all urge, and on what grounds?

4. Epicurus states the difficulty suggested by the existence of evil, in the form of a dilemma ?

5. When it is urged as an objection to the efficacy of prayer that God is unchangeable, what fact supplies the answer?

6. State some of the leading texts in which the New Testament recognises the Divine authority of the Pentateuch.

7. What historical reasons may be assigned for the popular prejudice against the Jews?

8. Show distinctly what is meant by Eusebius when he speaks of certain writings being ἀντιλεγόμενα and νόθα.

9. In what sense is the Polytheism of the ancient heathen more rational than the system of the modern Positivist ?

10. State briefly how Dr. Thomas Brown has set aside Hume's argument against Miracles.

II. In what respect has Strauss, in the recent edition of his "Life of Jesus," abandoned his former principle?

12. How do modern unbelievers attempt to account for the Messianic Prophecies ?

13. What is the answer?

14. Give some idea of the answer to the modern figment of a "Jehovistic" and an "Elohistic" author of the Book of Genesis.

15. State the Rule of Vincentius of Lerins in opposition to the Romish doctrine of Development.

16. What is the theological principle called "communicatio idiomatum"?

17. What statements of Scripture as to our Lord illustrate the importance of this rule?

18. Write down and explain the four Greek terms by which the leading heresies as to our Lord may, according to Hooker, be encountered?

19. What is the fact, assumed in the doctrine of the Atonement, which at once brings human reason to a stand?

20. Exhibit the error of Professor Jowett and others respecting the doctrine held by the early Fathers as to the Atonement.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

1. Give an account of what the work of S. Hippolytus of Portus adds to our information respecting the reception of the doctrines of Noetus at Rome.

2. Sketch the leading details of the controversy as to Re-baptism.

3. Who were the most eminent early Martyrs? In what years, and under what Emperors, did they suffer?

4. How was the question as to the lapsed connected with the growth of Novatianism?

5. The same religious question was related to an earlier and a later controversy ?

6. State the dates, and leading circumstances connected with the Synod of Rimini, and that known as the Latrocinium.

7. Define the different heresies, stating the dates at which they appeared, which arose as reactions, each from an opposite error, as to our Lord's Divinity.

8. What evidence does the Pelagian heresy unconsciously bear to the primitive doctrine of the Church as to Baptismal Grace?

9. Give some account of Theodore of Mopsuestia, and of the nature of the influence which he exerted.

10. Sum up the facts which prove that the Bishops of Rome had no supremacy in the Church till a very recent age.

COMPOSITION.

Write an Essay on the function of Christ as the Second Adam,
and on the benefits which thence accrue to man.

HEBREW EXAMINATION, AND THE PRIMATE'S PRIZES.

SENIOR CLASS.

1. Translate into Hebrew :

DR. TODD.

But thou Israel art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend....

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea I will help thee; yea I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness...

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

2. a. Translate :

המסך תרומה עין לא ירקב יבחר חרש חכם יבקש לו להכין פסל לא ימוט : הלוא תדעו הלוא תשמעו הלוא הגד מראש לכם הלוא הבינותם מוסדות הארץ :

b. Different explanations are given of the words on? What is the primary signification of the root p?

c. The versions of the LXX. and of St. Jerome show that the difficulty about these words was an ancient one?

3. a. Translate and point: ·

מראהו ותארו מבני אדם: כן יזה כאיש כאשר שממו עליך רבים כן משחת ואשר לא־שמעו גוים רבים עליו יקפעו מלכים פיהם כי אשר לא־ספר להם ראו

התבננו :

b. What is the principal difficulty that commentators find in this passage?

e. This is not inconsistent with the style of Isaiah? Give examples. d. Lowth, to meet this difficulty, alters the text?

e. Lowth is dissatisfied with the common rendering of ; what are his objections?

f. Mention some of the conjectures made to explain the version of given by the LXX.

g. Gesenius and Fuerst both reject the common rendering, but do not agree in their versions of the word?

h. Give an abstract of the arguments against the Messianic interpretation, and show their weakness.

4. a. The etymology and signification of the name Isaiah ?

b. Why is the name written in the title of the book, but yo in the text?

c. The Cabbalistic explanation of the name per gematriam, as given by Abarbanel?

d. The name is differently represented in different places by our English translators?

e. Some of the early Greek Fathers were under a mistake as to Isaiah's father, from ignorance of Hebrew?

f. What is the origin of the Jewish opinion that Isaiah was of royal descent ?