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Jeremiah_--17. Character and Contents of the Book of Baruch--18. Second, or Syriac Book of Baruch--19. So-called Epistle of Jeremiah--VIII. _Additions to the Book of Daniel_--20. Enumeration of these--Their Authorship and Date--IX. _The Prayer of Manasses_--21. Remarks on this Composition--X. _The Books of the Maccabees_--22. Number of these Books--Remarks on their Historic Order--Origin of the Name Maccabee--23. First Book--Its Genuineness and Credibility--Its Authorship and Date--Original Language--24. Second Book--Its Character and Contents--25. Third Book--Its Contents and Character--Fourth Book--Its Stoical Character--Its Contents--Fifth Book--Its Original Language and Contents
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PART III.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT.
FIRST DIVISION--GENERAL INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER XXIV.
Language of the New Testament--1. God's Providence as seen in the Languages of the Old and New Testaments--Fitness of the Hebrew for its Office in History, Poetry, and Prophecy--2. Adaptation of the Greek to the Wants of the New Testament Writers--3. Providential Preparation for a Change in the Language of the Inspired Writings--Cessation of the Hebrew as the Vernacular of the Jews, and Withdrawal of the Spirit of Prophecy Contemporaneous--4. Introduction of the Greek Language into Asia and Egypt--Its Use among the Jews, especially in Egypt--Its General Use in our Lord's Day--5. Character of the New Testament Greek--Its Basis the Common Hellenic Dialect, with an Hebraic Coloring received from the Septuagint, and an Aramaic Tinge also--The Writers of the New Testament Jews using the Language of Greece for the Expression of Christian Ideas--Technical Terms in the New Testament--6. Adaptation of the New Testament Greek to its Office

CHAPTER XXV.
External Form of the New Testament--1. The Three Main Divisions of the New Testament Writings: Historical, Epistolary, Prophetical--2. Natural Order of these Divisions--3. Subdivisions--In the Historic Part--In the Epistolary Part--Diversity of Arrangement in Manuscripts--4. Arrangement of the New Testament Writings not Chronological--Importance of Knowing this--5. Continuous Writing of the Ancient Uncial Manuscripts-- Stichometrical Mode of Writing--This led gradually to the Present System of Interpunction Cursive Manuscripts--7. Ancient Divisions in the Contents of the Sacred Text--Ammonian Sections and Eusebian Canons-- 8. Divisions called Titles--9. Divisions of the Other New Testament Books--10. Chapters and Verses--Church Lessons--11. Remarks on the above Divisions--Paragraph Bibles--12. Titles and Subscriptions

CHAPTER XXVI.
THE NEW TESTAMENT TEXT AND ITS HISTORY--I. _The Manuscript Text_--1 and 2. General Remarks--3. Origin of Various Readings and their Classification--Substitutions, Insertions, Omissions--Arising from Inadvertence, or Unskilful Criticism--Wilful Falsifications cannot be imputed to the Copyists--4. Materials for Textual Criticism--General Results--5. Notice of some Manuscripts--The Vatican, Sinai, Alexandrine, Ephraem, Palimpsest, Dublin Palimpsest, Beza or Cambridge (Bilingual), Purple. Cursive Manuscripts--II. _The Printed Text_--6. Primary Editions and their Sources--Complutensian Polyglott, Erasmian, Stephens', Beza's, Elzevir Editions--7. Remarks on the Received Text--III. _Principles of Textual Criticism_--8. Its End--Sources of Evidence--Greek Manuscripts--Their varying Value--9. Ancient Versions and their Value--10. Citations of the Church Fathers--11. Canons of Criticism

CHAPTER XXVII.
FORMATION AND HISTORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON--1. General Remarks--2. Different Periods to be noticed--3. Apostolic Age--4. Age of the Apostolic Fathers--Remarks on their Quotations--5. Age of Transition--Events of this Age which awakened the Christian Church to a Full Consciousness of the Divine Authority of the Apostolic Writings--Execution of Versions--6. Age of the Early Church Fathers--They recognized a Canon, though not yet Complete--Canon of the Syriac Peshito, Muratorian Canon--Canon of the Councils of Laodicea and Carthage--7. Closing Remarks

CHAPTER XXVIII.
ANCIENT VERSIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT--I. _Latin Versions_--1. Interest attaching to these Versions--2. The Ante-Hieronymian or Old Latin Version--3. Its Canon--Remarks on its Text--Manuscripts containing it--4. Jerome's Revision of the Old Latin Version--5. Jerome's New Version of the Old Testament--Books left untranslated--The Vulgate and its Diversified Character--Remarks on the History of the Vulgate--II. _Syriac Versions_--6. The Peshito--It comprises the Old and New Testaments--Its Date--Its Name--7. Character of the Peshito--The Curetonian Syriac--Its Relation to the Peshito--Its high Critical Value--8. The Philoxenian Syriac--Its extremely Literal Character--Hexaplar Syriac--Remarks on these Versions--Jerusalem Syriac Lectionary--III. _Egyptian and Ethiopic Versions_--Memphitic Version, Thebaic, Bashmuric--10. Ethiopic Version--IV. _Gothic and other Versions_--11. Gothic Version of Ulphilas--12. Palimpsest Manuscripts of this Version--13. Ancient Armenian Version
SECOND DIVISION--PARTICULAR INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER XXIX.
THE HISTORICAL BOOKS--1. The New Testament a Necessary Sequel to the Old--The Two Testaments interpret Each Other, and can be truly understood only as an Organic Whole--2. Remarks on the Use Made of the Old Testament by the Writers of the New--Fundamental Character of the Gospel Narratives--I. _The Gospel as a Whole_--3. Signification of the Word "Gospel"--Its Primary and Secondary Application--4. General Remarks on the Relation of the Gospels to Each Other--5. Agreements of the Synoptic Gospels--6. Differences--7. Theories of the Origin of these Three Gospels: That of Mutual Dependence; That of Original Documents; That of Oral Apostolic Tradition--Remarks on this Tradition--Its Distinction from Tradition in the Modern Sense--8. No One of the Gospels gives the Entire History of our Lord, nor always observes the Strict Chronological Order of Events--Remarks on our Lord's Life before his Baptism--9. Remarks on the Peculiar Character of the Fourth Gospel--This and the other Three mutually Supplementary to Each Other--10. Harmonies of the