TOHU-VA-VOHU 7 For a good many religious statements and preachers’ inferences there is no other Scripture reference than to Eph. xu. 95! Bengel is right. These are the four stages : Sine timore et sine amore; Cum timore et sine amore ; Cum timore et cum amore; Sine timore et cum amore. There are four wonderful things about Israel : their election, their rejection, their unbelief, and their ingathering. Israel’s first sin was in asking, their last in reject- ing, a king. I like a republic, but I detest a democracy. The difference between Judaism and Christianity is as great as between Judaism and early heathenism. Hence gradual progress was necessary, and the on- ward development and changes which we notice, for example, in the Maccabean period as compared with