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first containing " the Law ; " the second , " the Divine Oracles of the Fro phets ; " and the third , " Hymns and other books by which knowledge and piety are promoted and perfected ; . " But of the books which compose each of these divisions he has . given no list ; although the second division undoubtedly contained the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah , and that of the twelve minor prophets . To these , repeated allusions are made by him in different
parts of his writings . The books of Isaiah , Jeremiah , Hosea and Zechanah are quoted , as containing oracles and prophecies , and the sacred characters sustained by their authors are set forth in terms of high panegyric * But it does not appear to have fallen in the way of Philo to make any direct reference to the books of Ezekiel and Daniel ; though there is no reason whatever to doubt , as we shall see under the fifth head of our inquiry , that these books formed parts of the canon of the iUexandrine Jews . It is
sufficient just now to have shewn that Philo and Josephus both adopted the same threefold division of the books of the Old Testament , as the authors of the Jewish Talmud , and the earl y Christian Fathers did after them ; that the second head of this threefold division contained the writings of certain prophets ; and that no reasonable doubt can exist , in the mind of the most sceptical , as to the literal identity of these writings with the books which now exist under the names of the Jewish prophets , abating for those accidental variations which are inseparable from the act of frequent
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JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE OF TEN WEEKS AMONGST THE WALDENSES ^ OCT . TO DEC . 1826 , BY G . KENRICK . In a wild romantic situation at the foot of the Cottian Alps , in Piedmont , under the government of the Catholic Kings of Sardinia , exist at this day a small body of men who profess to have received Christianity from the hands of the apostles themselves , and to have preserved it uncorrupted from father to son to the present time , without ever having submitted to the usurpations *
or imbibed any of the errors , of the Church of Rome , or having needed t © take any part in that Reformation which agitated Europe from one end to the other . There is no record existing of the first planting of Christianity in the valleys of Piedmont , but there are abundant testimonies to its having been firmly rooted and in a flourishing state early in the fpurth century all over Italy , which included the whole country on the other side of the Alps . Ambrose , Bishop of Milan , A . D . 376 , declares that the injunction of celibacy on the clergy ( which was one of the earliest innovations of the Church of Rome ) was not received or obeyed in the remote mountainous places
under his jurisdiction ; by which he must , in all probability , have intended the most distant part of the adjacent country of Piedmont , at the Western extremity of which are the remote and mountainous glens and val $ s which conferred on the inhabitants the appropriate name of valdesi or / yaUenses . It appears highly probable that the disciples of Christ , driven front the South of Italy by the persecutions of Nero and succeeding emperors , would take refuge among the rocks and caverns of the North , and there is no place in Italy , or perhaps in Europe , so peculiarly calculated by nature for affording them a safe and undisturbed asylum . The early writers pf the Romish com-« ¦ ¦ . Wr ? * Eichhorn , Einleit . ins A . T . £ 30 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1827, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1796/page/24/
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