| Show I I WHAT tI Tilt A from Park City ath the ks lg about what year yer wn were those p comprising the t formed Into book form and called caUd tb the II ly 10 whom were they bound to and called clId the holy Bible IWho Who Oret tb the Bible Into In Int t to the language Was h hi a or a Protestant Ih the been lino hl lit Its drat Ant publication f SVere th the manuscripts compo composing tb the Old Bible In book for form fore Christs Urn Um The tiNt lint two question ma may be con can as on one There I la II as far u II we know no record skewing by whom the Inspired writings were tint drat bound to together lether gether Into Inlo one and named the Butt Tune The form of the noon 1111 woe In common use UM In the middle spa though the original Greek name was TIt The Boo Books and Indicating II a ot of writings o each ot of tb the others Th The tame name must mut da date te back to 10 tine the VI very each arll sit t ages 1 when whon the h writings were we the books par excel Una each 01 or of these th books first left the I authors th they existed only oalY In single form Hut as their authority wu 11 were sled circulated throughout the various broaches ot of th the Church Jn In this way rep tat of acrid books book came Into existence ThIN These would be liter wr ar 1 test as al libraries are today d r and d the question would aria arIM a as to how many books sot wets wrt worthy worth of oC a place In tb the thes s This one once thy they were r kept to together ther and named Ta BItI A As early II a too IGO yearn e alter aUr Christ Chril Gr of the boots ILC ac as aa Inspired were No NoI I low than fifteen or of th thus dated In Inthe inthe the years yra between ItO anti and AD lore are known They differ slightly but they pro prove that the Bible at that time was In the main a as it Ie today Six or of these theM compiled by br lu Augustine the third of Carthage and Ind hlll the are Identical with the present In other catalogue the Hoek Revelation cf I omitted On One James JamM It II Peter III IH John JOAn and Another omit Jam James and Ind Jude Jud lJ II Peter It II and III John tion etc ete But the catalogues referred to are not lIot th the on only evidence of tb the existence 11 In th first centuries of our era ra of the Hible Th lh earliest date from the same time The Tbt Alexandrian manuscript com pricing four and aad containing boUt both Ute the Old and Nw New Testaments is isnow now In e London It was before betor tb the century In the 1111 Reins III Ie another man to the Hh century As AI fur t ale Old Testament this w wen Into the version known U mo more than MO years 7 a Christ It I is frequently quoted la III the lit New Testament writings and the Ant to It It Is b by who lived In the second century tury before our tr arc It ma may ho added that II as early mi th the second century stir aner Christ It wu oom neon mon t to refer to the books book of 01 tilt the II as tM the Old Covenant and thou dt t the Uti Christian era Ita u II the Ne New Con Covenant word hat hll been bean trace tiled The fact flot pro proves the In this century of 01 the coll 1 tin or of booko se Th The Books Ten 1 already dr at that tines i rotated Ina I une book divided Into two twe T l elbird can be briefly The nt Ant complete translation or of tM lb B Into English wa was made mad boat about L A D 1180 1150 by Wycliff the cel eel w reformer on one of the theIon Slyest Ion It al rise IM Reformation The Th first printed edition of the English BIllie Bible was wa published by Tyndale In IOU and 11 T TIIs II was bought up anti and by Sir Thomas More or but a Improved edition up apo p pared shortly afterwards Tyndale suf f feted d the tbt death th of a martyr The 11 so called Bible appeared in This was wa revised under the eena t 01 Cranmer published by all nu 11 In 1 list Jam James appoint eat ed a te le revise vl the existing THY They work In III tort years and RA tb the result we tM the authorised version Which whdeh was printed I In ant The fourth question bat been briefly answered nw d a as far a as relating to tb the lish The n Hebrew text wu 11 cany examined b by learned Jews Jew at TI berla 1 more than thab a thousand yeses I ago a and cor nerd u II II by Il I fa the existing rain mill r Their tU t is II known au tt the Muo text an ant 10 o I is the tW that reseat IU ow In In it It 1 in its rediAl reading the were m by y the I I th their lr learned mt moved toJ t liola amts Italy 1441 centro Surf Bur op carting the With t them In time various came existence owing wier to hi copying and revision Shin In 4 to 0 eliminate errata erral The Greek text hi has within UIt last two centuries been examined 1 and ad revised by scholars who compared the TheIr situ aim was wa to tn rew restore re th the teat tat td th the torn In which It was wal writ rU rUt t tee and their tabors labor In this direction hI have Well been crow ro d with seo sear tons tb the thor they to Th The last question h anady been n The Th exited 14 before the time m ot of our Gur Lord and Savior and was wa generally u authentic both by bl Je Jews and Christians That the OM Old canon existed et t that time that J hi clear olear from tb the New Testament and anca from the tho writings of ud Phia In the H New Testament every 1 book of f tM the Old I U quoted except Ruth lIra Esra t i and nd Laments Ilona of Jeremiah but they art are aU all re fr to under dr the threefold division Th The Law th the Prophets and the Writ Inca How the book of 01 the he Old Testament were pr rd Is II a that pro re elate lOla come at title tWe remote date dat TM The books of the tH Law were ere placed In the Tabernacle and wn were kept th tier during the journey Journ In the t t desert duerL The T writers from rom Joshua to 1 David 1 1 deposited their writings In tb the lime elan sanctuary Solomon transferred the collection to the Temple and added hii hi own wn works Th The writings of t the Prophets were r alto also added successively At the destruction ot of th the Temple the books boob we were undoubtedly d somewhere for tor safe Hf keeping wee W familiar both with the Law and tb the When tb the Temple had been rebuilt II t Era Esra collected the sacred writ I Ingo His own were rt added perhaps erb b by Simon limon the Jut Just and Ind linin the books book ot of Nehemiah and Malarial were eel with Ih the inspired This II I a probable theory on the origin and pros of the Old Testament |
