After a short preliminary consideration, we shall discuss some presuppositions of our theme in parts A and B and then only in part C, as a summary, present the whole theme. This method will necessitate some minor repetitions, but it should serve to cast some light on the contemporary situation.

Our primary concern in this article is the problem of time as understood by St. Augustine. In pursuit of this concern we must consider, secondarily, the viewpoint of Plotinus—one of the two Neo-Platonists whose writings influenced the general shape of St. Augustine's thought. Thus we shall proceed to: (1) an exposition of St. Augustine's theory; (2) a brief statement of Plotinus' view; (3) an analysis of their similarities and differences, aimed at clarification of the unique aspects of St. Augustine's concept.

The great theme of the apostolic preaching in the Acts of the Apostles is ‘Jesus and the Resurrection’. The Resurrection also forms the climax of the creeds; and it has been taught as the end of man's salvation by the Church ever since, despite the threat of militant scepticism without and humanist rationalisation within.

John Owen was the main exponent of the classic Independency of the mid-seventeenth century. He was no mere sectary, the very antithesis of the fanatic; a highly intelligent and highly educated man; and a voluntary, not a compulsory, Nonconformist. From a writer as systematic and as magisterial as Owen it should be possible to gain some light on the meaning of the Lord's Supper for his generation of Dissenters.

At least it may be said of the Epistle of James that it escapes the ‘woe’ of Luke 6.26 (‘Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!’).

We do not possess the complete works of John Calvin. Three editions calling themselves Opera omnia have been printed. The first at Geneva in 1617; the second at Amsterdam in 1671, and the third as volumes 29–87 in the series Corpus Reformatorum. The Geneva edition contained most of the Latin works published in the Reformer's lifetime, together with Latin translations of the sermons, delivered originally in French, on 1 Samuel and Job. It had also a collection of letters from, to, and concerning Calvin. Amsterdam differed from this in no significant point. Corpus Reformatorum was vastly superior to its two predecessors. Besides containing everything that they had printed, it also aimed at including all the French works published in the sixteenth century, it greatly increased the number of letters, it provided not only the definitive edition of the Institutio (as Geneva and Amsterdam had done) but also the earlier editions and the 1560 French edition, and finally it gave the three lives of Beza and Colladon and the Annals drawn from the Registers of Geneva which illustrate the course of Calvin's life and work in the city.