The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . some indefiniteness, though generally denoting a standard ofopinion and practice. From the time of Origen, however, ithas been applied to the books which are regarded by Chris-tians as of Divine authority. The Bible, therefore, is the canon;that is, the authoritative standard of religion and morality. 5. But of all titles, the word of God is perhaps the most • John x. 35: Jas. iv. 5. & Luke xxiv. 27. «Rom. i. 2; 2 Tim. iii. 15. *Acts vii. 38: Rom. iii. 2: Heb. v. 12 • 1 Kings viii. 6: 2 Chron iv. 20: Ph. xxviii. 2. Mat. v.
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . some indefiniteness, though generally denoting a standard ofopinion and practice. From the time of Origen, however, ithas been applied to the books which are regarded by Chris-tians as of Divine authority. The Bible, therefore, is the canon;that is, the authoritative standard of religion and morality. 5. But of all titles, the word of God is perhaps the most • John x. 35: Jas. iv. 5. & Luke xxiv. 27. «Rom. i. 2; 2 Tim. iii. 15. *Acts vii. 38: Rom. iii. 2: Heb. v. 12 • 1 Kings viii. 6: 2 Chron iv. 20: Ph. xxviii. 2. Mat. v. 18 : John x. 34: 1 Cor. xiv. 21. « Mat. xxvi. 56: Acts iii. 18-21: xxviii. 23. Mat. xi. 13: xxii. 40. THE BIBLE—ITS GENUINENESS. 15 impressive and complete. It is sufficient to justify Thewordthe faith cf the feeblest Christian, and it gathers up of God-all that the most earnest search can unfold. We may saymore at large what this title involves, but more than this wecannot say. It teaches us to regard the Bible as the utteranceof Divine wisdom and The Jewish Shekel. Actual Size— earliest Jewish coined money (B. C. 125). On one side is Aarons rod thatbudded, on the other the pot of manna. The inscription, in Samaritan char-acters, is Shekel of Israel,and Jerusalem the Holy. The date (the secondyear, i. e. of Simon) is written over the pot of manna. CHAPTER I. ON THE GENUINENESS OF SCRIPTURE: OR THE BIBLE, ASINSPIRED MEN WROTE IT. The integrity of the records of the Christian faith is substantiatedby evidence, in a tenfold proportion more various, copious and con-clusive than that which can be adduced in support of any other ancientwritings.—Isaac Tayloe. Sec. 1.—Genuineness Defined And Proved. 6. If a MS. of each book of the Bible in the authors hand-writing were still extant, and if the fact of its being A genuine6uch could be proved, every copy that agreed with Ms- what-the MS. would be perfectly genuine. There are now, how- 16 GENUINENESS—PR
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