We grant that the Bible was TRANSLATED by Ezra, and his Scribes, into the Chaldee, which was the language of the learned among the Babylonians, and acquired by the Jews during their captivity; and is now at this day, the language (_i. e._ letters) of our present Hebrew Bible;--but, 36 years before the Captivity, viz., 624 B. C., the Mosaical Books of the Laws, (_i. e._ the Pentateuch and others) were found in the Old Temple, and they were read by Shaphan to King Josiah, and of course in the original language of ISRAEL (_not Hebrew_), which we will prove in the next Volume to have been nearly identical with those of ancient Phœnicia and Egypt. Therefore, that the Book or Books were now written by Ezra in the Chaldee--_or right-angular letter_--is a conclusive proof _that it was a Translation_, and being so, as a necessity, it must have been from an _original_ Book or Bible, and consequently, of _antecedent_ date to the period of Ezra. Even in the Apocryphal Book of Esdras (2d) (and quoted from as authority by atheists), and who is identical from date with Ezra,--there is a sentence proving the previous existence of the Bible, which he is about to rewrite, or translate.--Esdras (_i. e._ Ezra) says, in his address to The Deity,-- "But if I have found grace before thee, send the Holy-Ghost into me, _and I shall write all that hath been done in the World since the beginning_ [_i. e._ the Creation] WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE LAW [_i. e._ Original Books of MOSES] that men may find thy path, and that they which will live in latter days, may live." [_i. e._ eternally.] Now the capitalized line distinctly proves the existence of a previous Book of "the Law," and in the original language; and the preceding line defines that it contained "all that had been done in the World" from the Creation; therefore, the Books of Moses (and others) as we read them at this day. The first translation of the Bible was by Ezra, 536 B. C., from the original language of Israel, into the Chaldee characters; (_i. e._ incorrectly called _Hebrew_ by us at this day)--the second translation was from the Chaldee into the Greek letters, in the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus, 277 B. C., when 72 learned Jews (Chaldee and Greek Scholars) were employed upon the subject; consequently the Bible remained in the Chaldæan language untranslated for 259 years. In the period of THE SAVIOUR the Bible was read, not only in the Chaldee-Hebrew, but in the Greek language; and that being the prevailing tongue (as before stated) in Phœnicia, consequent upon the invasion by Alexander; as, also, at Jerusalem and in Egypt, the precepts of the Old Testament were, therefore, understood by the Jews and the Gentiles, who were thus prepared to receive a MESSIAH, through the intelligence derived only from the Sacred Prophets. CHRIST visited the coasts of Tyrus and Sidon, and was addressed by the Woman of Faith (without doubt) in the Greek language. [Mathew xv. 21-28.]