The people of the island of Malta are only called bar.barians because they spoke a language neither Greek or Latin. It was peopled by a mixed race, chiefly Phenicians, but with some Egyptian and some Greek civilisation. They were of the race which furnished most of the sailors of the East and of the Mediterranean. The above coin has traces of the three races; the head of the Sicilian goddess Ceres is in a good Greek style on one side, while on the other is one of the Egyptian trinities, Osiris, between Isis and Nepthys, and above are some Phenician letters.

That the island of Melita was our Malta is known by the time spent under the storm. They reached it on the fourteenth day after leaving Crete. The wind was blowing hard all the time from the east-north-east; but, by the skill of the steersman, the vessel was kept off the African coast, and was thus driven, after the sailors had thrown the mast overboard, like a log upon the water, in a straight course in a direction due west, at the rate of nearly forty miles a day. The whole of the particulars of the navigation are well explained in Smith's Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul.

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ACTS, XXVIII. 16.

And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself, with a soldier that kept him."

On the next page is a Map of ancient Rome, with its far famed Seven Hills,―

The Pretorian Camp was a square plot of ground, measuring a quarter of a mile each way. It was placed, legally speaking, on the outside of the city, so as not to wound the pride of the citizens; but as the wall was drawn on the outside of the camp, it was, in a military sense, within the city, and the troops were thus at hand to overawe mobs and to quell riots. It was governed by the captain of the Pretorian guard, and to his charge Paul, with the other prisoners, was delivered; and in or near this camp the Apostle dwelt with the soldier that kept him.

His preaching within the Pretorian Camp is mentioned in Philip. i. 13, where the Authorised Version calls it the "palace."

1 CORINTHIANS, XI. 10.

"For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels."

The

The meaning of this verse is open to conjecture. word "angels" should be "preachers," or messengers from heaven, as the preachers of the good tidings are called Evangelists. The word "power" has been supposed to be the name of a veil, at first given to the queen's veil, and

afterwards to that of all ladies.

The German word

"Macht," might or power, has at times been used for the name of a woman's veil.

The above coin and that on this page are of two of the Alexandrian queens, to which many Roman coins could be added, and they are given to show that the veil was the usual headdress of a queen, as the ribbon was of a king. In the Synagogue the men were separated from the women, hence veils were not needed on their account; but,

nevertheless," because of the preachers," who could see both men and women, modesty required that the women should wear the veil,-which was, perhaps, called a " power."

1 CORINTHIANS, xv. 44.

"It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there

is a spiritual body."

The real Egyptian opinion about the resurrection to a future life is shown in the Note on Acts, xxiii. 8, where the soul is bringing back life and breath to the embalmed

body. But some few Egyptians held the opinion expressed by the Apostle in our text which is represented in the accompanying drawing, from a mummy-case in the museum of Dr. Lee at Hartwell. The large female figure, whose body makes an arch, resting upon her feet and her hands, is the goddess Neith, and signifies the vault of

heaven.

Two figures of the god Knef, the spirit, are

seated on perches, and like the goddess are painted blue,

the colour of the sky.

of falling down dead.

In the middle is a man in the act
He is coloured red, like the Egyp-

tians. By the side of him stands a man coloured blue. This is his spiritual body, which suffers no death, but rises to heaven when the natural body falls to the ground.

2 CORINTHIANS, L 11.

"Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf."

The word "persons" should be translated "mouths," -though meaning, more lirerally, "mouthpieces." The