MEMOIR XXiil priory church of Christ Church, Hants. Reference to this change will be found in the Tohw on pp. 44 and 45. In the following year Dr. Edersheim’s ‘ Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ’ was published, and he now definitely planned that ‘ Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah’ which was destined to be his magnum opus. The idea of this book, and the manner in which he should treat it, had indeed been present with him for very many years. In his student-days the first effects of Strauss’s Leben Jesu had not yet altogether passed away, and it was then, and while studying that work, that the method which he afterwards pursued oecurred to him as the best means of giving a fitting answer to the arguments there employed. The idea, scarcely as yet thoroughly formulated, lay dormant until it received a fresh impetus from the appearance of ‘Ecce Homo.’ He then drew up the scheme of a book on the basis of his original plan, but this time largely influenced by its reference to the line taken in ‘ Kcce Homo.’ Lack of leisure prevented the accomplishment of this work; and so it came about that it was not till 1876 that Dr. Edersheim found himself in a position to undertake the immense task which he had placed