re in use. See Tertullian against Marcion, 4.
1. A striking example of the superior accuracy of Jerome's
independent version above his simple revision of the old Latin
is the passage Jer. 31:31-33 as compared with the quotation of
the same, Heb. 8:8-10. In the former, where the translation is
made immediately from the Hebrew, we read: "Behold the days
shall come, saith the Lord, that I will make for the house of
Israel and the house of Judah a new _covenant_ (_foedus_): not
according to the _covenant_ (_pactum_) which I made with their
fathers," etc. In the same passage, as quoted in the epistle to
the Hebrews, where we have only a revision of the old Latin, we
read: "Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, that I will
accomplish for the house of Israel and for the house of Judah a
new _testament_ (_testamentum_): not according to the
_testament_ (_testamentum_) which I made for their fathers,"
etc.

3. The _unity_ of the Bible has its ground only in divine inspiration.
So far as human composition is concerned, both parts of it have a great
variety of authors. The writers of the Old Testament, especially, lived
in different, and some of them in very distant ages. They were widely
separated from each other in native character and endowments, in
education, and in their outward circumstances and position in life. It
is of the highest importance that the student of Scripture not only know
these facts, but ponder them long and carefully, till he fully
understands their deep significance. He has been accustomed from
childhood to see all the books of the Bible comprised within the covers
of a single volume. He can hardly divest himself of the idea that their
authors, if not exactly contemporary, must yet somehow have understood
each other's views and plans, and acted in mutual concert. It is only by
long contemplation that he is able to apprehend the true position which
these writers held to each other, separated from each other, as they
often were, by centuries of time, during which great changes took place
in the social and political condition of the Hebrew people. Then, for
the first time, he begins to discern, in the wonderful harmony that
pervades the writings of the Old Testament, taken as a whole, the clear
proofs of a superintending divine Spirit; and learns to refer this
harmony to its true ground, that "holy men of God spake as they were
moved by the Ho