We have now reviewed the books of the Bible and presented some of the historical and internal evidences bearing upon the question of their authenticity. The authenticity of the books of the New Testament, we have seen, is but little better attested than that of the Old. The authors of twenty books--Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Ephesians, Colossians, Second Thessalonians, First and Second Timothy, Titus, Hebrews, James, First and Second Peter, First, Second, and Third John, Jude, and Revelation--are unknown. Three books--Philippians, First Thessalonians, and Philemon--are of questionable authenticity. Four books only--Romans, First and Second Corinthians, and Galatians--are generally admitted to be authentic. Of the sixty-six books of the Bible at least fifty are anonymous works or forgeries. To teach that these books are divine, and to accept them as such, denotes a degree of depravity on the one hand, and an amount of credulity on the other, that are not creditable to a moral and enlightened people. PART II. CREDIBILITY. CHAPTER XII. TEXTUAL CORRUPTIONS. "The Bible does not contain the shadow of a shade of error from Genesis to Revelation"--Cheever. "Every book of it, every chapter of it, every verse of it, every word of it, is the direct utterance of the Most High."--Bunyan. Such are the dogmatic assertions of Bibliolaters. So much confidence do they pretend to repose in the doctrine of the Bible's inerrancy that they propose the most crucial tests for its submission. The Rev. Jeremiah Jones, one of the highest orthodox authorities on the canon, lays down this rule in determining the right of a book to a place in the canon: "That book is apocryphal which contains contradictions; or which contains histories, or proposes doctrines contrary to those which are known to be true; or which contains ludicrous trifling, fabulous, or silly relations; or which contains anachronisms; or wherein the style is clearly different from the known style of the author whose name it bears" (New Methods, Vol. I., p. 70). The Rev. T. Hartwell Horne, a standard authority in the orthodox church, submits this test in determining the divinity of the Bible as a whole: "If real contradictions exist in the Bible, it is sufficient proof that it is not divinely inspired, whatever pretenses it may make to such inspiration" (Introduction to the Scriptures, Vol. I., p. 581).