BIBLICAL GREEK PRIZE EXAMINATION.

PROFESSOR ABBOTT.

FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL (LXX. VERSION).

1. State the arguments adduced to prove that the Books of Samuel were compiled from various sources.

2. Discuss generally the critical value of the LXX.; and

3. Mention some of the passages in which the advocates of the LXX. allege that our present Hebrew text is obviously (a) corrupt, (b) unintelligible, or (c) defective, and which that version enables us to correct.

4. What reasons are given by Kennicott for regarding the passage, 1 Sam. xvii. 12-31 (part of the account of David and Goliath), as an interpolation? State separately the evidence of the Vatican and the Alexandrian texts.

Mention any other instance of a considerable interpolation.

5. Quote the rendering of the LXX. in the following, and write brief

notes:

(a). "His sons made themselves vile." This is one of the passages called "corrections of the scribes,"-why?

(b). "He assayed to go."

(c). "Whose height was six cubits and a span."

(d). "That first slaughter was about twenty men within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plough."

(e). "The Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan." A very slight alteration in our present Hebrew text would give the original of this?

(f). "Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads."

(g). "To-morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me.”

6. καὶ εἶπε Σαούλ· Κύριε ὁ θεὸς Ἰσραήλ, τί ὅτι οὐκ ἀπεκρίθης τῷ δούλῳ σου σήμερον ; εἰ ἐν ἐμοὶ ἢ ἐν Ιωνάθαν τῷ υἱῷ μου ἡ ἀδικία; Κύριε ὁ θεὸς Ἰσραὴλ δὸς δήλους· καὶ ἐὰν τάδε εἴπῃ δὸς δὴ τῷ λαῷ σου Ἰσραὴλ, δὸς δὴ ὁσιότητα· καὶ κληροῦται Ιωνάθαν καὶ Σαούλ, καὶ ὁ λαὸς ἐξῆλθε.

What is the English version of this passage?

The version above quoted is supposed to throw some light on the Urim and Thummim,-how?

The LXX. add in the following context an important clause?

7. "And Samuel arose and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people," &c. What difficulty in this passage is removed by the LXX. ?

8. “ And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past."

Give the LXX. and the Vulgate version.

It is easy to account for the variation in the last clause?

9. Translate: καὶ ἔδωκαν αὐτῷ κλάσμα παλάθης καὶ δύο σταφίδας.

10. Explain or comment on the words ἀμεσσαῖος, μανδύου.

THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS.

I. Give some account of the nationality, &c., of the Galatians. 2. State concisely the arguments for and against each of the three opinions respecting the Brethren of the Lord.

3. Give some illustrations of the close parallelism in thought between the Epistles to the Romans and to the Galatians.

4. State the grounds on which Dr. Lightfoot fixes on a later date for the Epistle than that usually assigned.

5. Correct the Authorised Version of the following, quoting the original of the words which you translate differently:—

(a). "Through infirmity of the flesh I preached the Gospel unto you at the first.'

(b). "I testify to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to do the whole law."

(c). “ I withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed.” 6. Write explanatory notes on the following :—

(α). ὁποῖοί ποτε ἦσαν οὐδέν μοι διαφέρει.

(6). εἰ δὲ ζητοῦντες δικαιωθῆναι ἐν Χριστῷ εὑρέθημεν καὶ αὐτοὶ ἁμαρ τωλοί, αρα (query accent ?) Χριστὸς ἁμαρτίας διάκονος; μὴ γένοιτο· εἰ γὰρ ἃ κατέλυσα ταῦτα πάλιν οἰκοδομῶ παραβάτην ἐμαυτὸν συνιστάνω.

(c). ἐπικατάρατος πᾶς ὁ κρεμάμενος ἐπὶ ξύλου.

(α). ὁ δὲ μεσίτης ἑνὸς οὐκ ἔστιν, ὁ δὲ Θεὸς εἷς ἐστίν.

(ε). οὐ λέγει καὶ τοῖς σπέρμασιν ὡς ἐπὶ πολλῶν, ἀλλ ̓ ὡς ἐφ ̓ ἑνὸς καὶ τῷ σπέρματί σου, ὅς ἐστιν Χριστός.

What is the difficulty in the last passage, and what light is thrown on the thought by a parallel passage in the Epistle to the Romans? Quote the context, and explain the argument.

7. Discuss the various readings in the following, and the interpretation:

τὸ γὰρ Αγαρ Σινᾶ ὄρος ἐστίν.

οὐκ ἐσμὲν παιδίσκης τέκνα, ἀλλὰ τῆς ἐλευθέρας. τῇ ἐλευθερίᾳ οὖν ᾗ Χριστὸς ἡμᾶς ἠλευθέρωσε στήκετε.

οἷς οὐδὲ πρὸς ὥραν εἴξαμεν τῇ ὑποταγῇ.

8. Account for the omission of any reference to the apostolic decree in this Epistle.

9. What rendering of the words, “ he counted it to him for righteousness," has been proposed by later Jewish writers?

10. What is Hermann's distinction between eye and elrep? Show that it does not hold in the New Testament.

II. Comment on the following words or phrases: ἐριθεῖαι, αἱρέσεις, πρόσωπον λαμβάνειν, στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου, στίγματα τοῦ Κυρίου, παιδαγωγός.

12. Discuss the date of the visit to Jerusalem mentioned in chap. ii. 1, "Then after fourteen years I went up to Jerusalem.”

PREVIOUS MEDICAL EXAMINATION.

DR.

ANATOMY.

HARVEY.

1. Describe, and give the centres of ossification of, a vertebra from the mid-dorsal region.

2. Describe briefly the various structures which enter into the formation of the ankle-joint, and the motion of which it permits.

3. Give the origin and insertion of the external oblique muscle of the abdomen.

4. Enumerate, classify, and give the nerve-supply of the muscles of the forearm.

5. Give the stages, relations, and branches of the vertebral artery. 6. Describe the arterial anastomosis round the knee.

7. Describe, and contrast, especially as to tributaries and relations, the right and left renal veins.

8. Trace the oculo-motor nerve from the sphenoidal fissure to its distribution.

9. Enumerate, and describe briefly, the parts forming the surface of the medulla oblongata.

10. Give the form, relations, and blood-supply of the thyroid body.

DR. RAWDON MACNAMARA.

BOTANY.

1. State all the principal features which distinguish an endogenous from an exogenous plant.

2. Explain fully the phenomena on account of which the elaterium plant has received the name "Ecbalium."

3. Describe the principal features that would induce you to refer a plant to the natural order "Papaveraceæ."

4. Describe the natural order "Rutacea," mentioning the principal plants furnished by it to the British Pharmacopoeia.

5. What meaning do you attach to the following terms-ovate, peltate, perfoliate, pari-pinnate, impari-pinnate.

MATERIA MEDICA.

1. From what source do we obtain Jalap? where is its geographical position? what are its physical appearances? what are its physiological effects, and upon what principles do these depend?

2. State all that you know about Rhubarb.

3. State all that you know about Stramonium.

4. Mention the impurities that are most generally found in the Sulphuric Acid of commerce, the source from which they spring, and the tests by which they can be recognized.

5. Describe and explain the pharmacopoeial process for making the Ferrum redactum. What are its physiological effects, and write a pre

scription containing it?

N.B-The fuller the answers to these questions, the greater will be the value attached to them.

PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY.

MR. GALBRAITH.

1. State the laws of Boyle and Marriotte, and of Dalton and GayLussac; from these laws, and the standard weight of a liter of dry air, viz., 1.2932 grams, deduce the formula

2. Describe the method followed by Dumas in determining the density of a vapour, and prove the following equation for calculating d, the density, as referred to hydrogen :

in which G' is the volume of the glass globe when raised from the temperature to T°, and ▲ the difference of the two weighings.

3. On what principle does evaporation from the surface cool the body?

4. Describe the Eudiometer, and the method of using it for analyzing

water.

5. Explain, on the principles of electric induction, the accumulation of the charges on the armatures of a Leyden jar.

6. Describe and explain the principle of any magneto-electric machine with which you are acquainted.

1. Show by an equation the reaction which takes place between potassium nitrate and sulphuric acid and calculate the weights of nitric acid, and of hydrogen potassium sulphate, which may be procured from 250 grams of potassium nitrate.

Describe

2. Describe Marsh's test for ascertaining the presence of antimony and arsenic, and show how the results may be distinguished. Reinsch's test, and its practical advantages in poison cases.

3. What are the usual tests for sulphates, chlorides, and nitrates? 4. Describe the method usually employed for determining the quantities of carbon and hydrogen in an organic substance; also Will and Varrentrapp's soda-lime process for the determination of the nitrogen.

5. From the following data, compute the percentage composition of glacial acetic acid which contains only three elements, viz., carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen :-Weight of acid = 0.413 gram; carbon dioxide ascertained from the potash bulbs 0606 gram, and water from the copper oxide tube = 0·252 gram.

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6. Having thus obtained the percentage composition, state the principles by which we are led to assign the molecular weight of this substance.

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PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY.

DR. REYNOLDS.

I. A solution of a caustic alkali is handed to you in the bottle marked No. 1; determine its composition, and find its strength by a volumetric process.

2. The bloody liquid in the bottle marked No. 2 contains a poisonous volatile acid; identify the acid.

3. Analyse the salt contained in the box marked No. 3; determine the basic and the acid radicle present.

4. The sample of urine marked No. 4 contains two abnormal substances; what are they?

5. Does the sample of water given to you in the bottle marked No. 5 contain a nitrite? State the grounds for your conclusion.

N. B.-Three hours will be allowed for this work. No credit can be given for any statement of a result unless accompanied by a short but accurate account of the experimental method pursued.