the Christian Church--4. Their Uses--I.
_The Two Books of Esdras_--5. Name of this Book--Its Contents--Its Date--6. The
Second Book of Esdras found only in Versions--Remarks on these Versions--7. Its
Contents and Date--II. _Tobit_--8. Accounts of the Contents of this Book--9. Various
Texts in which this Book is Extant--Its General Scope--III. _Judith_--10. Contents of the
Book--11. Remarks on its Character, Date, and Design--IV. _Additions to the Book of
Esther_--12. Account of these--V. _The Wisdom of Solomon_--13. Its Divisions and
their Contents--14. Authorship of the Book--Its Merits and Defects--VI.
_Ecclesiasticus_--15. Its Titles and Contents--16. Date of the Book and of its
Translation--VII. _Baruch and the Epistle of 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
* * * * *
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
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