Dr. Whiston excluded the Song of Solomon, and accepted as canonical more than twenty books not found in the Bible. He says: "Can anyone be so weak as to imagine Mark, and Luke, and James, and Jude, who were none of them more than companions of the Apostles, to be our sacred and unerring guides, while Barnabas, Thaddeus, Clement, Timothy, Hermas, Ignatius, and Polycarp, who were equally companions of the same Apostles, to be of no authority at all?" (Exact Time, p. 28). The Rev. James Martineau, of England, says: "If we could recover the Gospel of the Hebrews, and that of the Egyptians, it would be difficult to give a reason why they should not form a part of the New Testament; and an epistle by Clement, the fellow laborer of Paul, which has as good a claim to stand there as the Epistle to the Hebrews, or the Gospel of Luke" (Rationale of Religious Enquiry). Archbishop Wake pronounces the writings of the Apostolic Fathers "inspired," and says that they contain "an authoritative declaration of the Gospel of Christ" (Apostolic Fathers). The church of Latter Day Saints, numbering one half million adherents, and including some able Bible scholars, believe that the modern Book of Mormon is a part of God's Word, equal in authority and importance to the Pentateuch or the Four Gospels. Martin Luther. The greatest name in the records of the Protestant church is Martin Luther. He is generally recognized as its founder; he is considered one of the highest authorities on the Bible; he devoted a large portion of his life to its study; he made a translation of it for his people, a work which is accepted as one of the classics of German literature. With Luther the Bible superseded the church as a divine authority. And yet this greatest of Protestants rejected no less than six of the sixty-six books composing the Protestant Bible. Luther rejected the book of Esther. He says: "I am such an enemy to the book of Esther that I wish it did not exist." In his "Bondage of the Will," he severely criticises the book. He rejected the book of Jonah. He says: "The history of Jonah is so monstrous as to be absolutely incredible" (Colloquia, Chap. LX., Sec. 10). He rejected Hebrews: "The Epistle to the Hebrews is not by St. Paul; nor, indeed, by any apostle" (Standing Preface to Luther's New Testament). He rejected the Epistle of James: "St. James' Epistle is truly an epistle of straw" (Preface to Edition of 1524). He rejected Jude. "The Epistle of Jude," he says, "allegeth stories and sayings which have no place in Scripture" (Standing Preface). He rejected Revelation. He says: "I can discover no trace that it is established by the Holy Spirit" (Preface to Edition of 1522). CHAPTER IV. DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE. The following is a brief description of the principal versions, translations, and manuscripts of the Bible: Versions of the Jewish Scriptures.