ricter sense of the
term; that is, men trained to the prophetical office, and
exercising it as their profession; while the writings of men
like David, Solomon, and Daniel, who though they had the Spirit
of prophecy, were yet in their office not prophets, but rulers
and statesmen, were assigned to the Hagiographa. But this is
inconsistent with the fact that the book of Ruth (which in
respect to authorship must go with that of Judges) and also the
book of Lamentations are in the Hagiographa. Others, with more
probability, find the main ground of classification in the
character of the writings themselves--the _Law_, as the
foundation of the Theocracy; the _Prophets_, that record the
history of the Theocracy and make prophetic revelations
concerning it; the sacred _Writings_, occupied with the personal
appropriation of the truths of revelation, and as such
exhibiting the religious life of the covenant people in its
inward and outward form. But even here we do not find perfect
consistency.

(B.) _Classification of the Greek Version of the Seventy._ The ancient
Greek version of the Old Testament, called the _Septuagint_ (Latin
_Septuaginta_, _seventy_), because, according to Jewish tradition, it
was the work of seventy men, interweaves the _apocryphal_ with the
_canonical_ books. Its arrangement is as follows, the apocryphal books
and parts of books being indicated by italic letters. We follow the
edition of Van Ess from the Vatican manuscript, which omits the
apocryphal Prayer of Manasseh:

1. Genesis.
2. Exodus.
3. Leviticus.
4. Numbers.
5. Deuteronomy.
6. Joshua.
7. Judges.
8. Ruth.
9. 1 Kings (our 1 Samuel).
10. 2 Kings (our 2 Samuel).
11. 3 Kings (our 1 Kings).
12. 4 Kings (our 2 Kings).
13. 1 Chronicles.
14. 2 Chronicles.
15. 1 _Esdras_.
16. 2 Esdras (our Ezra).
17. Nehemiah.
18. _Tobit_.
19. _Judith_.
20. Esther, _with apocryphal additions_.
21. Job.
22. Psalms.
23. Proverbs.
24. Ecclesiastes.
25. Canticles.
26. _Wisdom of Solomon_.
27. _Ecclesiasticus_.
28. Hosea.
29. Amos.
30. Micah.
31. Joel.
32. Obadiah.
33. Jonah.
34. Nahum.
35. Habakkuk.
36. Zephaniah.
37. Haggai.
38. Zechariah.
39. Malachi.
40. Isaiah.
41. Jeremiah.
42. _Baruch_.
43. Lamentations.
44. _Epistle of Jeremiah_.
45. Ezekiel.
46. Daniel, _with apocryphal additions_--_Song of the Three Children in
the Furnace, History of Susannah, Story of