457 Ahasuerus 8. Esther ii. ver. 21, &c. 453 Ahasuerus 12. Esther iii. iv. v. &c. 445 Ahasuerus 20. Nehemiah i.-iii. &c. 433 Ahasuerus 32. Nehemiah xiii. ver. 6. 429 Ahasuerus 36. Malachi i.-iv. 428 Ahasuerus 37. Nehemiah xiii. ver. 6, &c. 296 Ptolemy Soter 9. The Canon of the Old Testament completed, by adding two books of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, and Malachi; by Simon the Just. DR. TAYLOR. Footnote 18: κοσμος is the _unregenerate world_, John vii. 7. and χωρησαι, is to _receive kindly_, 2 Cor. vii. 2. Footnote 19: _Vid. Philo. Jud. de Vit. Mosis; & eund. citat. ab Euseb. in Præp. Evang. l. viii. c. 6. & Joseph, contr. App. l. ii._ Quest. IV. QUEST. IV. _How doth it appear that the scriptures are the word of God?_ _Answ._ The scriptures manifest themselves to be the word of God by their majesty and purity; by the consent of all the parts, and the scope of the whole, which is to give all glory to God; by their light and power to convince and convert sinners, to comfort and build up believers to salvation: but the Spirit of God bearing witness by and with the scriptures in the heart of man, is alone able fully to persuade it, that they are the word of God. Before we proceed to consider the arguments here brought to prove the scriptures to be the word of God, some things may be premised.[20]