_III. Classification of the Old Testament Josephus vs Apion, Bk. Books._ I. (See note 1). The Gospel, (Roberts), Chap. vi; 1. The Law; Dr. Smith's Old Testament 2. The Prophets; History, Appendix 1, 3. The Writings or Hagiographa; pp. 651-3. The Seventy's 4. The Apocrypha. Bible Dictionary, Art. Bible, subdivision "Structure of the Bible;" Ibid. Art. Apocrypha. Oxford and other Bible Helps. _SPECIAL TEXT: "Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."_--JESUS. _NOTES._ 1. _Antiquity of the Hebrew Sacred Books:_ Josephus in his first book against Apion ascribes the most ancient books of the Hebrew race--the Pentateuch, the five books--to Moses, and in contrasting the Hebrew literature with that of the Greeks, he says: "We, therefore, (who are Jews) must yield to the Grecian writers as to language and eloquence of composition; but then we shall give them no such preference as to the verity of ancient history, and least of all as to that part which concerns the affairs of our several countries. As to the care of writing down the records from the earliest antiquity among the Egyptians and Babylonians; that the priests were intrusted therewith, and employed a philosophical concern about it; that they were the Chaldean priests that did so among the Babylonians, and that the Phoenicians, who were mingled among the Greeks, did especially make use of their letters both for the common affairs of life and for the delivering down the history of common transactions, I think I may omit any proof, because all men allow it so to be. But now as to our forefathers, that they took no less care about writing such records, (for I will not say they took greater care than the others I spoke of,) and that they committed that matter to their high priests and to their prophets, and that these records have been written all along down to our own times with the utmost accuracy. * * * * * For our forefathers did not only appoint the best of these priests, and those that attended upon the divine worship, for that design from the beginning, but made provision that the stock of the priests should continue unmixed and pure; for he who is partaker of the Priesthood must