A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Papyrus of the first century A. D., containing the Decaloguein Hebrew. Oldest fragment of a Hebre^A^ MS. of theOld Testament. [Reproduced bv the eonitesy of the Clarendon Press, Oxford.]History of All Nation», Vol. II., page 153. THE SEPTUAGINT. 153 its life; but it introduced it into a new one of not inferior it is to-day our oUlest witness of the text of tlie Old Testamentbooks, and in marfy cases enables us to restore the Hebrew text, whichthrough various causes is fre(|uently corru})t. To und
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Papyrus of the first century A. D., containing the Decaloguein Hebrew. Oldest fragment of a Hebre^A^ MS. of theOld Testament. [Reproduced bv the eonitesy of the Clarendon Press, Oxford.]History of All Nation», Vol. II., page 153. THE SEPTUAGINT. 153 its life; but it introduced it into a new one of not inferior it is to-day our oUlest witness of the text of tlie Old Testamentbooks, and in marfy cases enables us to restore the Hebrew text, whichthrough various causes is fre(|uently corru})t. To understand this, itmust be remembered that all manuscripts of the Hebrew Old Testamentare comparatively recent. The Jews of the Christian centuries, so farfrom seeking to preserve manuscripts, rather hastened their destructionas soon as they began to grow old and unserviceable, in order to savethem from possible profanation. Hence, what until recently was theoldest manuscript of a portion of the Old Testament and is still theoldest manuscript in book-form, a fac-simile page of which is
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