Light from the Ancient East

need not be dwelt upon. Happily there is nosuch want here. Translating, indexing, and the other qualities of a good book are all here, and here in their perfection. We note also an item in the translator’s preface, to wit, that there is in preparation a Lexicon of Patristic Greek, and that many workers are gathering material for it. This is good news to the student. We note incidentally a fact which shows how difficult it is even for an expert to keep pace with the progress of discovery in recent times. Dr. Deissmann says (p. 5): ’No tablets have yet been found to enable us to date exactly the years of office of the Procurators Felix and Festus, or of the Proconsul Gallio, which would