Editorial note — Chapter VIII · FAITH.—THE BIBLE.
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[Footnote A: Vide Kitto.]
[Footnote B: See the prologue to the Book of Ecclesiasticus, in the Apocrypha.]
[Footnote C: The five books of Moses—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.]
[Footnote D: This is a Greek term for the sacred writings not included in the other two divisions. The Talmud places the following books in this division: Ruth, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, Lamentations, Daniel, Esther, Ezra and Chronicles. The books not included in this list, nor in the Pentateuch, of course, constitute the division called the Prophets.]