 | Henry P. Linton - 1875 - 324 pages
...Artaxerxes, who reigned after Xerxes, king of Persia, the prophets after Moses wrote the events of their days in thirteen books ; the remaining four books contain hymns to God, and documents of life for the use of men, that is, Psalms. From Artaxerxes to our own times the events... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh - 1876 - 186 pages
...3,000 years; but as to the time from the death of Moses to the reign of Artaxerxes, King of Persia, who reigned after Xerxes, the prophets who were after...to God and precepts for the conduct of human life " (including, of course, Proverbs.) " It is truje our history hath been written since Artaxerxes very... | |
 | Samuel Davidson - 1877 - 264 pages
...belong to Moses But as to the time from the death of Moses till the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, the prophets who were after Moses wrote down what...the conduct of human life. It is true our history has been written since Artaxerxes very particularly, but has not been esteemed of the like authority... | |
 | 1879 - 1248 pages
...belong to Moses, that contain his laws, and the traditions of the origin of mankind till his deith. The prophets who were after Moses wrote down what was done in their times, in thirteeu books. The remaining four books contain hymns to God, and precepts fur the conduct of human... | |
 | Alexander Roberts - 1883 - 296 pages
...this way counted together. And it is clear that when Josephus tells us that " the prophets who came after Moses wrote down what was done in their times in thirteen books," he includes among "the prophets " all the historical books. The canon of * As will be noticed in the... | |
 | 1886 - 820 pages
...who followed Moses wrote what took place in their times in thirteen books; while the four remaining books contain hymns to God and precepts for the conduct of human life. True it is, that since the time of Artaxerxes, our history has been recorded in detail, but it has... | |
 | Carl Wilhelm Eduard Nägelsbach - 1886 - 722 pages
...books which contained ifivovc fif таг Sein nal TOÎÇ àvûpinrotf ЬтгоЩкас TOÎI ßiov [" hymns to God and precepts for the conduct of human life "], it is evident that he included the Lamentations, not in the О'ЭЧЛЭ [Hagiographa], but in the prophetical... | |
 | 1888 - 606 pages
...Artaxerxes, king of Persia, who succeeded Xerxes, the prophets who came after Moses related the things done in their times in thirteen books. The remaining four books contain hymns to God and practical directions for men. From the time of Artaxerxes to our own time, each event has been recorded,... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 1896 - 586 pages
...thousand years ; but as to the time from the death of Moses t1ll the reign of Artaxerxes, King of Persia, who reigned after Xerxes, the prophets who were after...the conduct of human life. It is true, our history has been written since Arlaxerxes very particularly, but hath not been esteemed of the like authority... | |
 | Charles Randall Barnes - 1900 - 1292 pages
...8) gives twenty-two books : " five belong to Moses, the prophets in thirteen hooks, and four which contain hymns to God and precepts for the conduct of human life." The writings of the Old Testament completely confirm the testimony of Josephus. Coincidences of language... | |
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This interval of time was little short of three thousand years ; but as to the time from the death of Moses to the reign of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, who reigned after Xerxes, the prophets who were after Moses wrote down what was done in their times... 
