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CHAPTER III. The Canon: Its Genuineness. TTOW natural the question,
as we open our English Bibles: -- "If the first portions of this
volume were if/?the written more than twenty-three hundred years
S'y'eated? ago, and the last book nearly eighteen hundred years
since, how strong a confidence may I place in our version, that in
it we have, with great exactness, the revelations of the Holy
Spirit as they were inspired and recorded by the holy men who
received them ? " The Old Testament was nearly all of it written in
Hebrew. The portions composed during and after the original
language of Old captivity of the Jews in Babylon were written
Testament. in a dialect very similar, and called after the nations
from whom they learned it, the Chaldee. The canon of the Old
Testament?so called from the Greek word navuv, a cane, a measure, a
perfect rule?as The canon, containing the full and divine measure
of inspiration and perfect rule of faith' and life, was completed
about four hundred years before Christ. Ezra is supposed carefully
to have gathered together the sacred books written before his day
after the return from the captivity. His own record, and that of
Nehemiah, were afterward added, and no further addition was made.
Certain interesting historical books, recounting the wars of the
Jews under the Maccabean princes between the closing of the canon
and the times of Christ, stretching over a period B. 0. 325 to B.
C. 160, together with certain other Apocrypha. books of poetry,
proverbs, personal incidents, and improbable fables, under the
title of Apocrypha, were formerly bound up in the volume with the
sacred canon. These Value of these only of value for the light they
throw upon this period of Jewish history, and the evidence, by
striking cont...
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