ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.

PROFESSOR M'DOWEL.

1. Describe the derivative lachrymal apparatus.

2. Describe the oblique muscles of the eyeball; mention their actions, and nervous supply.

3. Enumerate the extrinsic muscles of the tongue, and their relative positions.

4. Mention the arteries which form an anastomosis around the scapula. 5. The composition of the Bile.

6. The relative anatomy of the femoral artery in Hunter's canal.

7. The chemical composition of Bone.

8. Contrast the microscopic characters of the ultimate fibre of voluntary and involuntary muscles.

9. Give a description of the psoas muscle.

10. Describe the ligamentous connexions of the lower end of the fibula.

SURGERY.

DR. R. W. SMITH.

I. Mention the causes and treatment of inflammation of the neck of the bladder.

2. Sir B. Brodie's prescription in cases of lithic acid deposits in the urine.

3. Mention the varieties of abscess occurring in the parotid space. 4. Enumerate the situations in which fœtid abscesses are met with. 5. Describe the disease termed "contraction of the palmar fascia." 6. Describe the phenomena of respiration in cases of fracture of the spine in the lower part of the cervical region.

7. Mention the causes and treatment of "pruritus ani."

8. Give the modes of treating fissures of the anus.

9. Enumerate the symptoms of stricture of the rectum.

10. Treatment of the oxalate of lime diathesis.

BIBLICAL GREEK PRIZE EXAMINATION.

PROFESSOR

SIDNEY SMITH.

Acts of the Apostles.

(A.)

I. Can it be determined from internal evidence alone what are the limits of the time to which the history of the Acts belongs, and what the nature of the government of Judæa was then?

2. At what places in the Acts of the Apostles would you insert the times of writing the Epistles to the Thessalonians, and Corinthians, and Romans,-giving the reasons?

3. Specify the occasions when (reasoning from the use of the first person) Luke first joined Paul; when they subsequently separated; when they became permanently companions.

4. Silas cannot be identified with Luke?

5. Enumerate the five visits of Paul to Jerusalem, and say which of them is to be identified with that referred to in Gal. ii., giving some of the reasons.

6. ἔσεσθέ μοι μάρτυρες ἔν τε ̔Ιερουσαλὴμ καὶ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ Ἰουδαία καὶ Σαμαρείᾳ καὶ ἕως ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς. Point out how the plan of the Acts of the Apostles answers to that indicated in these words.

7. Philip who was sent to the Eunuch is the same as he who had four daughters prophetesses, and neither of them was an apostle; how is this shown?

8. πολλοὶ τῶν ἐχόντων πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα βοῶντα φωνῇ μεγαλῇ Enxovтo. Explain the construction.

9. What was the inscription found in the Tiber in the sixteenth century, apparently corroborating the account of Simon in Justin Martyr? 10. What is the real meaning of "Semoni," and of the whole inscription?

II. Paul is said to have continued his work in the school of Tyrannus for two years: what ground is there for thinking that during this stay at Ephesus he paid an unrecorded visit to Corinth?

12. How are Paley's objections to this opinion disposed of by C. and H.? 13. II. Cor. i. 15, 16. "In this confidence I was minded to come to you before, that ye might have a second benefit: and to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia to you, and of you to be brought on my way unto Judea." Explain the seeming difficulty arising from this passage.

14. What Epistle was written at the close of this stay at Ephesus? and on what grounds is this concluded?

15. Who were the ten imprisonment at Rome? this is concluded?

persons who were with Paul during his first Mention the Epistles from whose salutations

16. What reasons to show that of these ten only Luke could have been the writer of the Acts?

17. κατ ̓ ἐκεῖνον δὲ τὸν καιρὸν ἐπέβαλεν Ηρωδης ὁ βασιλεὺς τὰς χεῖρας κακῶσαι τινας τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐκκλησίας. What Herod was this Point out the undesigned accuracy detected here by Paley?

18. Paul says in II. Cor., "When I came to Troas to preach Christ's Gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord," &c. To what portion of the narrative in the Acts is this to be referred?

19. Why did Paul not then remain at Troas to preach?

20. Where after this did Titus meet him?

21. Give the chief particulars concerning Titus that can be collected from the Epistles.

22. Paul's citizenship was not derived from his being a citizen of Tarsus the reason being that it was not a "Colonia," nor a "Municipium," but only an "urbs libera." Explain the force of this reasoning, and the meaning of these different terms.

23. ̓Ανέστησαν δὲ τινες τῶν ἐκ τῆς συναγωγῆς τῆς λεγομένης Λιβερτίνων καὶ Κυρηναίων και ̓Αλεξανδρέων, κ. τ. λ. These synagogues have been differently classified; mention the three chief modes.

24. By what change of translation does Wieseler support his idea that Paul's father was a Cilician Libertinus?

25. Give the view of Chrysostom.

26. "They watched the gates day and night to kill him (Saul).” In II. Cor. it is said in reference to this, ὁ ἐθνάρχης ̓Αρέτα τοῦ βασιλέως ἐφρούρει τὴν πόλιν. In what sense is ἐθναρχης used here, and what different senses is it capable of?

27. State the chronological difficulty as to Damascus being then subject to Aretas.

28. And the supposition by which Wieseler proposes to remove it.

29. Write a note saying who Aretas was, the cause of his war with Antipas, why the expedition of Vitellius was abandoned, and what was the fate of Antipas ?

30. Describe exactly the office of the Asiarchs; and state the source from which we derive information concerning them and similar officers. 31. "Having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia." What two other persons of the name Gaius are mentioned?

32. Explain vɛwкópog. How is the word applied by Josephus? Does it mean "sweeper"? Explain the inscription on Hadrian's coin—'Epɛσίων δὶς νεωκόρων.

33. προσλαβόμενοι τῶν ἀγοραίων τινὰς ἄνδρας πονηροὺς—ἀγόραιοι ἄγονται καὶ ἀνθύπατοί εἰσιν. What are the different meanings assigned to άyopalos, according to its accents? and on what authority?

34. What were the Greek words for Proprætor, Proconsul, Procurator?

35. What distinction in these different offices, and the powers intrusted to them? and what is their historical origin?

36. Give examples of each from the N. T.

37. There is a remarkable historical accuracy in what is said of Sergius Paulus, the deputy of Cyprus, as derived from the statements of Dio Cassius?

38. ἀνθύπατοι.

Can the plural here be accounted for?

39. On what occasion was it, probably, that Paul went to Illyricum? 40. “All the prophets from Samuel, and those that follow after, as many as have spoken," &c. State the various constructions of the Greek. Why is Samuel placed first here?

41. Explain the origin of a “Sabbath day's journey"?

42. Derive, and explain the etymology of Tepov, and state what other Greek word of the same meaning is used by S. Luke.

43. Opinions differ as to who were οἱ ἐκ γένους ̓Αρχιερατικοῦ ? “Α Levite-having land." What is the difficulty, and how is it removed by Scripture evidence?

44. Mention the five different occasions on which we find in the Acts the "imposition of hands."

45. Lechler differs from Neander as to the reason why the Samaritans had not received the Holy Ghost until Peter and John arrived ?

46. Lechler refers to two passages to show that the imposition of hands was not confined to the Apostles, nor the exclusive vehicle of the communication of the Spirit?

47. "Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter." He renders this differently from either Neander or Lange?

48. διακονεῖν τραπέζαις. Explain the meaning. How does E. V. render the noun in the parable of the pounds in S. Luke's Gospel ?

49. "A great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth." Correct this translation, and mention the various reading.

50. Translate the passage from Diodorus Siculus by which the words in Acts are illustrated: εἶθ ̓ ἑνὶ τῶν ἐμπαγέντων ἐνάπτοντες ἀρχὰς στυπίνας ἀφίασι μέχρις ἄν παραλύθη.

51. τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἥν περιποιήσατο διὰ τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ idiov. What reason (rejected by Alford) is given by Meyer for the reading of the textus receptus here, τοῦ ἰδίου αἵματος ?

52. The structure imagined possible by Meyer would be contrary to the usus loquendi of the N. T. Greek?

53. TOŨ OεOũ. Does any doubt remain as to the reading in B? What is the evidence of ?

54. From what passage has it been argued that the name of the Holy Ghost was used in the baptismal formula?

55. πᾶς οἶκος Ισραήλ. Show that it is not necessary to regard this as an exception to the rule relating to rãs with an anarthrous noun ? 56. ἦσαν δὲ οἱ πάντες ἄνδρες ὡσεὶ δεκαδύο. Give the exact rendering, and adduce some parallels.

57. "Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?" This translation is incorrect with respect to both verbs?

58. Mention some of the Cilicisms ascribed to S. Paul.

59. Give a list of the Latin words in Acts.

60. What were the 'Εφέσια γράμματα ? How many were they originally?

61. Explain Epiɛpya. Where else in the N. T. does the word occur? 62. What references in S. Paul's Epistles to such practices?

63. Meaning of opкilw. Where is the word found in the N. T.?

64. Mention some of the occasions on which the burning of magical books is recorded by Latin historians.

65. "The sure mercies of David." Explain how the Greek word here came to be translated "mercies."

66. "David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God." Give the Greek, and the rendering by C. and H.

67. The E. V. may be supported as to the words, tỹ toũ Oɛoũ ßovλý, by a parallel from the Acts?

68. εἰς τὸ μεταξὺ σάββατον. What authority is there for giving Mera a different meaning here from what it has in all other places in the N. T.?

69. ἁγνίσθητι συν αὐτοῖς καὶ δαπάνησον ἐπ' αὐτοῖς. Write a note on these words. What was ἡ προσφορά!

70. If Paul is properly described as púλaoowv ròv vóμov, how is this reconciled with the language used in Galatians, διὰ νόμου νόμῳ ἀπέθανον ?

71. In the apology before the Jews delivered before Lysias, there are numerous Hebraisms-point out some of them; and also the expressions peculiar to S. Luke.

72. The Chiliarch having first bound Paul, τñ έπaúρiov ëλvσev AÙTÒV, (Acts, xxii.) and (xxiii.), we find him bound again, o déoμios Пavλos. These circumstances may be explained and reconciled in a way different from Alford's?

73. οὐκ ᾔδειν ὅτι ἐστὶν ἀρχιερεύς. Give the various solutions of the difficulty.

74. "Having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them." State the different views of this passage.

75. "Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord." What light is thrown by history on the phraseology here?

76. What does Josephus tell us of Judas the Galilean? Explain his statement that Judas was the founder of the fourth sect among the Jews. 77. Give some account of Gamaliel.

78. What does Josephus say concerning "that Egyptian”?

79. κατηχημένος τὴν ὁδὸν τοῦ Κυρίου. Write a note explaining the origin and growth of this phrase.

80. What particulars about Apollos may be gathered from the Epistles?