Chapter 13

NAMES AND EXTERNAL FORM OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. 1. Origin and Meaning of the Word Bible--Jewish Designations of the Old Testament--2. Origin of the Terms Old and New Testament--Earlier Latin Term--2. The Unity--Scripture has its Ground in Divine Inspiration--Its Great Diversity in Respect to Human Composition--4. Classification and Arrangement of the Old Testament Books--Classification of the Hebrew: of the Greek Version of the Seventy; of the Latin Vulgate--No One of these follows entirely the Order of Time--5. Original Mode of Writing called Continuous--6. Ancient Sections--Open and Closed; Larger Sections called Parshiyoth and Haphtaroth--7. Chapters and Verses--Caution in Respect to our Modern Chapters