THE BOOKS OF EZRA AND NEHEMIAH. 328 The constituent Parts and Author of the Book of Ezra, § 196, a, 324 Contents and Credibility of the Book of Esther, § 198, a, The same Subject continued, § 198, b, The same Subject continued, § 198, c, Age and Author of the Book, § 199, THE THEOCRATICAL INSPIRED BOOKS. Their Relation to the Foregoing, § 201, Name and Idea of a Prophet, § 202, Contents and Objects of the prophetic Discourses, § 203, Spirit of the prophetic Predictions, § 204, Spuriousness of the Second Part of the Prophecies ascribed to Spurious Passages contained in the First Part, § 209, Doubtful Passages in the First Part, § 210, . Genuine Passages of Isaiah, § 211, On Isaiah xxxvi.—xxxix., § 212, The same Subject continued, § 217, b, The same Subject continued, § 217, c, Masoretic and Alexandrian Recension, § 218, a, The same Subject continued, § 218, b, The same Subject continued, § 218, c, The same Subject concluded, § 218, d,. Different Editions and Collections of these Prophecies, § 219, a, The same Subject continued, § 219, b, Circumstances of his Life and Times, § 221, Character of the Book, judging from its Contents, § 236, Its literary Character, § 237, His Life and Times, § 238, Contents and Spirit of the First Part of his Prophecy, § 249, INTRODUCTION. § 1. OBJECT OF AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE. This is relating to (Cr," by its erence to UNDER the name Introduction to the Bible, Introductio sive Isagoge in Scripturam Sacram, or Introduction to the Old Testament and the New Testament, it has been found advantageous, for the study of the Bible, to collect into a whole certain preliminary information, which is necessary, both in books and academic lectures, Transpose to the right view and treatment of the Bible. indeed destitute of a true scientific principle, and of a necessary connection between its parts; but yet, by referring it to its several departments, namely, the history, the historical circumstances, and the peculiarities of the scriptural books, both of the whole collection and of its separate parts, it is pretty accurately distinguished from the other studies which belong to an examination of the S Bible, such as biblical history, (that is, a church history of the Old and New Testament,) from biblical archæology, with biblical geography and chronology, (which may be called exegetic assistant sciences,) and from biblical hermeneutics, though these were formerly confounded with it. It serves as a special introduc biblical |