CHAPTER II.

THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE.

The title Bible, from Ta Biblia, meaning The Book, or more properly The Books, was given to the sacred book of Christians, it is claimed, by Chrysostom in the fifth century.

For a period of one hundred and fifty years the sacred books of the Jews alone constituted the Christian Bible. They consisted of the following three collections of books which form the

Old Testament.

The Law.

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.

The Prophets.