Calendar: 1869-1870 Page 478

480 THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT There are certain notes of time in Genesis which may serve tu guide us to notion of the period at which it was written Specify some eight or ten of these Mention the evidence of Joshua Judges and Ruth to the existence of the Pentateuch at the time these books were written Mention also the evidence of the books of Samuel to the same effect In treating of the Old Testament what are the four main points that we have to consider What circumstances must we take into consideration in determining the character of the Old Testament 10 Show that our opinion of it cannot be independent of the New Testament Mention few passages tending to show how New Testament writers regarded it 11 What is the internal testimony of the Old Testament to its own origin and character 12 Specify certain facts which tend to show the real nature of the Theocracy 13 Show that the spiritual significance of the records of the Old Testament is destroyed if they are proved to be unbistoric 14 Show that the Old Testament Scriptures cannot be re- garded as natural outgrowth of the human mind 15 Show that the miraculous element in the Old Testament lies very often not in the facts related but in the relation of them Give instances of this 16 in secular history there are three distinctly marked periods What are these Show that they are not found in sacred history 17 Show the points in which sacred history differs from all other history 18 Mention the special features which characterise the com- position of the Old Testament 19 Show that there is an essential unity pervading it 20 What ground is there for supposing that there is an objeet in the Old Testament as whole apart from the object at which individual writers aimed