Origin and history of the books of the Bible, both the canonical and the apocryphal, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it . urrection and judgment of the mar-tyrs and the persecutors (see Daniel xii. 2). The Mil-lennium. XX. 7-XXII. Another rebellion and struggle, finaland complete triumph of good over evil,—the lastgreat day of judgment. APOCRYPHAL REVELATIONS. The Apocryphal Revelations, as a general fact, arethe poorest specimens of the Apocryphal nothing has the human mind more strikingly exhib-ited its own imbecility than in its attempts to i
Origin and history of the books of the Bible, both the canonical and the apocryphal, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it . urrection and judgment of the mar-tyrs and the persecutors (see Daniel xii. 2). The Mil-lennium. XX. 7-XXII. Another rebellion and struggle, finaland complete triumph of good over evil,—the lastgreat day of judgment. APOCRYPHAL REVELATIONS. The Apocryphal Revelations, as a general fact, arethe poorest specimens of the Apocryphal nothing has the human mind more strikingly exhib-ited its own imbecility than in its attempts to imitateor counterfeit the divine revelations. Prof. Stuart inhis Commentary on the Apocalypse, vol. i. pp. 36-127,and 475-504, has given an elaborate account, withspecimens, of several of these works; and Tischendorfin his admirable manner published seven of them atLeipsic in 1866, of which the most interesting are, 1,Revelations of Moses; 2, of Ezra; 3, of Paul; and 4,of John, all in Greek, and much better edited than anyof the preceding editions. Among the best attempts of this sort are the SibylineOracles, the Book of Enoch, the Second Book of Es. JEWS PLACE OF WAILING. THE APOCRYPHAL REVELATIONS. 499 drag as it stands in the Apocrypha of our English Bi-bles, and the Shepherd of Hermas; while among thepoorest are the four which I have named as pub-lished by Tischendorf. Of the Shepherd of Her-mas already a sufficient specimen has been given in thesection on the Apocryphal Epistles. The Second Book of Esdras, as it stands in the En-glish Apocrypha, with the exception of the first twochapters and the last two, which are interpolations ofa later date, was written very near the time whenJohn saw his Apocalypse. It is one of the best attemptsat apocalyptic writing by an uninspired pen, and Iearnestly commend it as such to the readers particu-lar attention; but as it is printed in all the EnglishBibles which contain the Apocrypha, there is no neces-sity for making an extract from
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