During the summer of 1938 an important discovery was made in Ostia. In the area at the west of the magnificent Horrea Epagathiana was excavated a temple dedicated to Hercules Invictus according to an altar set in its pronaos. Although inscriptions and works of art referring to Hercules had come to light in Ostia before, these findings in themselves were not sufficient evidence to indicate the existence of an important cult of Hercules in Ostia. So the discovery of a large temple of Hercules came as a complete surprise.

The Coverdale Bible of 1535 in itself, in its sources, in its enduring vitality, is one of the remarkable monuments of the Protestant Reformation in England. Any historical study of it must set one at the heart of that astonishing release of human energies that put an end to an older epoch of Christendom and, along with other influences, set us on the road to our modern complexity of forces whose issue we do not descry. The new vernacular Bibles of the sixteenth century, embedded in the new doctrine of the private reader's emancipation from authority, were manifestly one of the chief engines of the popular appeal of Protestantism, which was to be in the event so sweepingly successful throughout northern Europe.

The first half of Matthew 6: 33 presents a difficult problem to the textual critic, and the leading editors of the New Testament have solved it in different ways. The textual authorities offer several variant readings, but none of them is satisfactory from every point of view. However, it is possible by means of a highly plausible conjecture to obtain a text which makes excellent sense.