re, He tells
Simon that He intends him to be a "master-builder," to join, or bind, many
members to that Church, all of which would be owned of Him. But the Church
itself must be built upon the _Ebhen_, the _Stone_; by which Jesus
evidently alluded to Ps. cxviii. 22.:

[Hebrew: 'BN M'SW HBWNYM]
[Hebrew: HYTH LR'SH PNH:]
"The _Ebhen_ which the builders refused
Is become the head stone of the corner."

(Compare Matt. xxi. 42.)

May I ask whether the words [Greek: ho ermeneutai Petros] are to be
considered as the words of St. John, or of his transcribers? The question
may appear startling to some, but my copy of the Syriac New Testament is
_minus_ that sentence.

MOSES MARGOLIOUTH.

Wybunbury, Nantwich.

[Footnote 1: See also the marginal readings.]

* * * * *

EPITAPHS, ETC.

_Epitaphs._--There is, or was, one at Pisa which thus concludes:

"Doctor doctorum jacet hac Burgundius urna,
Schema Magistrorum, laudabilis et diuturna;
Dogma poetarum cui littera Graeca, Latina,
Ars Medicinarum patuit sapientia trina.
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Et nunc Pisa, dole, tristeris Thuscia tota,
Nullus sub sole est cui sic sunt omnia nota.
Rursus ab Angelico coetu super aera vectum
Nuper et Angelico, coelo gaude te receptum.
Ann. Dom. MCLXXXXIIII. III Calend. Novembr."

Nearer home, in Shoreditch churchyard:

"Sacred to the memory of Sarah Micci, who departed this life April 7th,
1819, aged 50 years.

Memento judicii mei, sic enim _erit_ mihi _heri_, tibi hodie."

Not far from this is the following laconic one:

"Dr. John Gardner's last and best bed-room, who departed this life the
8th of April, 1835, in his 84th year."

Which reminds me of one at Finedon:

"Here lyeth Richard Dent,
In his last tenement.
1709."

B. H. C.

_Curious Inscription_ (Vol. iv., p. 88.).--In the first edition of
_Imperatorum Romanorum Numismata Aurea_, by De Bie, Antwerp, 1615, at the
foot of a page addressed "Ad Lectorem," and marked c. ii., are the
following verses, which may be noted as forming a pendant to those referred
to:

ri R S D D
"Sc ptorum erum ummorum espice icta
ul V N R P

st Qu R I N I T
I a idem isu aciemus am nde acebunt."
ll F V F I V Pl

Signed "C. HAETTRON."

W. H. SCO