Chapter 9

AUTHORSHIP OF THE PENTATEUCH. Meaning of the Term--1. It existed in its Present Form from Ezra's Day--2. "The Law" ascribed to Moses in the New Testament--How Much is included in this Term--3. Force of the New Testament Testimony--4. The Law of Moses at the Restoration--5. Jewish Tradition that Ezra settled the Canon of the Old Testament--He left the Pentateuch essentially as he found it--References to the Law in the Books of Kings and Chronicles--6. The Book of Deuteronomy--Its Mosaic Authorship Certain--7. The Inference Certain that he wrote the Preceding Laws--8. This corroborated by their Form--9. By References in the New Testament--And the Old also--10. Relation of Deuteronomy to the Earlier Precepts--In Respect to Time--And Design--Change in Moses' Personal Relation to the People--Peculiarities of Deuteronomy explained from the Above Considerations--Meaning of "the Words of this Law" in Deuteronomy--11. Mosaic Authorship of Genesis shown--From Antecedent Probability--From its Connection with the Following Books--Objections considered--Supposed Marks of a Later Age--And of Different Authors--12. Unity of the Pentateuch