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take on the part of Eusebiiis himself or his transcriber , because , at the commencement of the quotation , Origen makes the number of books twenty-two , whereas , in the catalogue itself , he enumerates no more than twenty-one . - To the testimony of Origen and Jerome may be added that of Melko , Bishop of Sardis , of whom little is known among modern readers except the name , but who , nevertheless , stood high in the estimation of those who lived near his own times , and whose evidence in the present question is
particularly valuable , his catalogue of the books of the Old Testament being more ancient than that of any other Christian writer upon record . Melito is placed by Cave in the year of our Lord 170 , and is mentioned with honourable distinction by Jerome , in his " Catalogue of Illustrious Writers , " and by Eusebius , in the fourth book of his Ecclesiastical History . * His information respecting the canon of the Old Testament was collected during a journey into the East , of which he gives the following account in the preface to one of his works consisting of short extracts from the Law and the
Prophets : " When I went into the East , and was upon the spot where these things were formerly preached and done , I procured an accurate account of the books of the Old Testament , a catalogue of which I have here subjoined and sent to you . There names are these . " Here he proceeds to specify the names of the books , and , although his catalogue differs in one or two minute particulars from that which is given in our common English Bibles , it contains all the prophetical books included in the present Jewish canon , which it enumerates in the following order : Isaiah , Jeremiah , the twelve minor prophets , Daniel , and Ezekiel . 4 ? < f ? S 7 ( To be continued . ) J / 2 ? ^ y
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She is gone to the land which mortal eye Hath never yet glanc'd on ; To the regions of bliss beyond the sky Her pure , pure soul is gone ! And there shall she live in endless day , As the years of eternity glide away .
She was not made for this world of woe : Her angel form and look To little of this dull scene below , And too much of heav ' n partook . She seem'd like a saint from a brighter sphere , But sent on an errand of mercy here .
Now back to that land of bliss she hies ; Her embassy is o ' er ; She has join'd the concert of the skies ; She has gain'd her native shore ; And a crown of glory gems her brow , And the spirits of light are her sisters now
Then weep not , ye who are left behind ; The friend for whom ye sigh In the regions of blessedness ye shall find , The heavenly world on high ! And there , as eternal ages glide , Ye shall dwell in glory side by side . J . C . W . * Cap . rtxvi .
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* 248 Lines on the Death of a Young Lady .
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LINES ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/16/
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