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  • Author: Committee of the American New-Church Sabbath-School Association
    (Rev. Frank Sewall, Rev. J. C. Ager, Rev. L. P. Mercer, WM. N. Hobart, Francis A. Dewson)
  • Publisher: The New-Church Board of Publication
  • Publication Date: 1888
  • Total Pages: 218

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Bible Manual (II)

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EXCERPT

I. - The Origin of the Sacred Scripture

THIS Book in all our homes, so various in size, often occupying a conspicuous place, held sacred by some, and in high respect by ail, sometimes handed down from a former generation as a large, family Bible, and seen on the desks of all our churches,-whence came it, and why is it here?

The story is a long one, but profoundly interesting and profitable. On inquiry, the discovery will be made that this venerated Volume is fully worthy of all the respect and reverence it has ever received.

"Bible," from the Greek biblos, a book; coming to us, however, through the Latin and Norman French from the plural form, ta biblia, the books, which as early as the fifth century begin to be applied in the Greek churches of the East to the whole collection of writings regarded as belonging to the sacred canon. In all our modern languages it has become a singular noun.

THE BOOK, emphatically; the one Book containing in itself all the particular books of the sacred canon, the Book of books the King of books, in excellence above all others.

Who is the author of this great Book this foremost Volume of the world? Some say it has many authors; as many as the names attached to the several divisions, from Moses to John the Apostle, through a period of fifteen hundred years. How, then, did it become one? Whence this singular and wonderful unity, out of such wide-spread and far-reaching diversity, unparalleled in the history of human literature? On turning its pages we shall discover the reason. It is because one and the same Being speaks through it all. Apart from and above all these human scribes employed in different ages to write out its successive portions, it has as one supreme, Divine Author who inspired the theme and superintended the work from beginning to end. It is the circulation of the infinite wisdom of His love through each one of the parts or members that combines the whole into one compact and living organism. Hence the name given it, "THE WORD OF THE LORD" for it is the Divine Truth written in the language of men.

Table of Contents

SUBJECT NO.                                     PAGE
     I. The Origin of the Sacred Scripture ..... 3
    II. The Eternal Word ....................... 5
   III. The Word Revealed ...................... 6
    IV. Two kinds of Books in the Bible ........ 11
     V. Books of the Word, and the other 
          Sacred Writings ...................... 16
    VI. The Prophets were Seers: How their
          Communications were Received ......... 24
   VII. Antediluvian Revelation ................ 33
  VIII. Postdiluvian Revelation: An Ancient
          Word existing before that given
          through Moses ........................ 40
    IX. The Pentateuch ......................... 49
     X. Holiness of the Divine Law ............. 54
    XI. The Five Books Separately .............. 59
   XII. Divine Care for the Preservation of
          the Word ............................. 73
  XIII. The Book of Joshua ..................... 78
   XIV. The Book of Judges ..................... 82
    XV. The Book of Samnuel .................... 87
   XVI. The Books of Kings ..................... 93
  XVII. The Schools of the Prophets ............ 95
 XVIII. The Book of Psalms ..................... 98
   XIX. The Music and Choirs of the Temple ..... 106
    XX. The Book of Isaiah ..................... 110
   XXI. Jeremiah and the Book of Lamentations .. 115
  XXII. The Book of Ezekiel .................... 120
 XXIII. The Book of Daniel ..................... 123
  XXIV. The Twelve Minor Prophets .............. 127
   XXV. The Kethubim or Hagiographa; Sacred
          Writings of the Jewish Church ........ 156
  XXVI. The Apocrypha .......................... 186
 XXVII. Ancient Versions and Commentaries ...... 189
XXVIII. Manner of Preserving the Scriptures
          in Ancient Times ..................... 197
        Contemporaneous Kings of Judah
          and Israel ........................... 204
        Chronological Table .................... 205

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