AARON, rod of, 309;
other tricks, 310.
ABBOTT, Dr. Lyman, on Isaiah and Cyrus, 85;
on Davidic authorship of Psalms, 96.
ABIATHAR and Abimelech, their relations, 199.
ABIJAH and Jeroboam, 204.
ABIMELECH, his taking of Sarah, 193;
his relation to Abiathar, 199.
ABOLITION, see SLAVERY.
ABRAHAM, a textual change relating to, 167;
his gift of Sarah to Pharaoh and Abimelech, 193;
when did he go to Canaan? 194;
and Hagar, 194;
character of, 334;
deception of Pharaoh and Abimelech by, 341;
ordered to sacrifice his son, 361;
a polygamist, 383.
ACOUSTICS, Moses and Joshua speaking to all Israel, 288.
ACTS of the apostles, why written, 27;
book of examined, 140–144;
borrowed from Josephus, 142, 160.
ADAM, age of, 284.
ADAMITIC monogenism, Huxley on, 283.
ADULTERY, sanctioned by the Bible, 388–391;
forgiven by Christ, 389.
AGAG, Saul’s defeat of, 62.
“AGE OF REASON,” 246.
AHAZ, return of shadow on dial of, 272.
AHAZIAH, time of his reign, 207.
ALEXANDRIAN MS., description of, 42–46.
ALFORD, Dean, on a “Substratum of apostolic teaching,” 130.
ALFRIC, accepted epistle to Laodiceans, 35.
ALOGI, the, on Revelation, 150.
ALTARS, removed by Hezekiah, 64.
AMOS, 89–91.
ANICETUS, against the Passover, 133.
ANIMALS, cruelty to, 411–414;
see ZOOLOGY.
ANONYMOUS BOOKS, number of, 160.
ANTHROPOMORPHISM OF THE BIBLE GOD, 321ff.
ANTIOCH, disciples first called Christians at, 247.
APOCALYPSE, the, 149ff;
see REVELATION.
APOCHRYPHAL BOOKS, 15–20;
how known, 163.
APOSTLES, the three greatest knew nothing of the gospels, 110;
memoirs of, 116;
names of 241;
provided with staves? 241,
242.
APOSTOLIC FATHERS, gospels unknown to, 110–113.
APPELLES, gospel of, 127.
ARARAT, landing of the ark on, 285.
ARBAH, Jacob comes to, 59.
ARITHMETIC, Trinitarian, 289;
genealogic, 290.
ARCTURUS, 99.
ARK, animals taken into by Noah, 191, 192;
landing of, 285.
ARNOLD, Dr., on late date of Daniel, 103.
ARPHAXAD, mixed pedigree of, 192, 193.
ASA, his relation to Maachah, 205.
ASAPH, psalms ascribed to, 90.
ASH-TREE, see BOTANY.
ASIA, source of religions, 5.
ASTRAL WORSHIP, practiced by the Jews, 65.
ASTRONOMY OF THE BIBLE, 271ff.
ATHANASIUS, Esther rejected by, 35.
AUGUSTUS CaeSAR, taxing by, not a fact, 267.
AUGUSTINE, canon of, 29,
30, 32;
his fitness, 30.
AUTHORIZED VERSION, adopted by Westminster assembly, 33.
AUTHORS OF BOOKS OF THE BIBLE, 46–48.
BAASHA, time of his death, 206.
BABEL, absurd story of, 284;
contradicted, 285, 289.
BABYLON, Isaiah’s false prophecy concerning, 295.
BALAAM AND HIS ASS, 311.
BANDITS, pious custom of, 350.
BARACHIAS, 122.
BARING-GOULD, Rev. S., affirms Marcion as the source of Luke, 128.
BARNABAS, 36; epistle of,
111;
Hebrews so called, 157.
BARTHOLOMEW, gospel of, 127.
BARTON, Clara, 331.
BARUCH, book of canonical, 30.
BARUCH, father of Zacharias, 122.
BASHAN, Og, king of, 59.
BASILIDES, gospel of, 127, 148;
epistles rejected by, 157.
BATH-SHEBA, child of, smitten by the Lord, 411.
BATTLE, Israelite loss in, 265.
BAUR, F. C., gospels pronounced spurious by, 139, 153, 154;
I. Peter believed to be a Pauline document by, 146;
against authenticity of pastoral epistles, 157.
BEL AND THE DRAGON, 104.
BELFAST, biblical wine affirmed to be fermented by Pres. Gen. assembly, held at, 399.
BELSHAZZAR, not king of Babylon, 103;
feast of, 266;
not the son of Nebuchadnezzar, 267.
BENJAMIN, children of, ordered to kidnap wives, 406.
BENTHAM, Jeremy, on Priestley’s phrase, 330.
BERGH, Henry, 414.
BESANT, Mrs. A., on apostolic authorship of the gospels, 136, 137.
BETHANY, John’s mistake concerning, 132, 279.
BETHLEHEM, when so called, 59.
BETHSAIDA, birthplace of John, 132;
not of Galilee, 279.
BEZA, Revelation rejected by, 36;
on Revelation, 151;
Castalio on his translation of the Bible, 171.
BHAGAVATA, 6.
BIBLE, the Christian, 10;
subdivisions of, 12, 13;
canonical and apocryphal books of, 15–20;
different versions of, 39–44;
the Hebrew Samaritan, 39;
Septuagint, 40;
Peshito, Egyptian, 40;
Ethiopic, Gothic, Italic, Vulgate, 41;
Luther’s, 42;
Wicliffe’s, Tyndale’s, King James’s, Revised,
43;
Douay, 44;
authorship and dates, 45–49;
authorship of fifty books of unknown, 48;
fragmentary character of some books of, 106;
and science, 271–292;
immoral teachings of, 336–338;
arguments against the divine origin and in support of the human origin
of, 433–459;
inferior literary character of, 443;
rejected by the intelligent, 457;
canon of: see CANON.
BIBLES, Luther’s 42;
Wicliffe’s, Tyndale’s, King James’s Revised Version,
43;
Douay, 44.
BIBLES, other than Christian, 5–10, 437.
BIBLE WRITERS, unconscious of sin in lying, 341.
BIBLE DICTIONARY, (Smith’s), Judges, Ruth, Samuel and kings
asserted by, to have originally formed one book, 79, 81;
on Davidic authorship of Psalms, 95;
concession of as to Matthew, 124;
on birthplace of Luke, 126;
on inharmony of John and the synoptics, 135;
on I. Peter, 146;
passages in I. John rejected by, 148;
on Revelation, 149;
on biblical chestnut-tree, 280.
BIRDS’ NESTS, permission to rob, 414.
BIRKS, affirms the divine spirit behind human authors of the Bible, 11.
BLACKSTONE, on witchcraft, 371.
BLAYNEY, Dr., his arrangement of Jeremiah, 86.
BLIND MEN, one or more? 242.
BOOK OF THE LAW, Hilkiah’s discovery of, 51.
BOOKS, sacred lost or burnt by the Jews, 22, 23.
BOOKS, sacred, other than Christian, 437.
BOTANY, OF THE BIBLE, 279–281.
BRADLAUGH, C., on slavery in England, 377.
BRAHMA, 6.
BREACH OF PROMISE, 340.
BRIGGS, Dr. C. A., on composition of Deuteronomy, 52;
against Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, 53, 54;
on characters of Pentateuchal documents, 70;
verdict of the intellectual world pronounced by, 74;
on biblical liars, 341.
BUCKLE, H. T., clergy asserted to be the enemies of learning by, 403.
BUDDHIST, kindness to animals of, 414.
BUNYAN, J., biblical inspiration asserted by, 163.
BURNETT, on light and weak eyes, 344.
BURR, W. H., epistles pronounced spurious by, 153.
BYRON, quotation from, 413.
CaeSAR, Augustus, taxing by not a fact, 267.
CAIN, story of, 189.
CAJETAN, authenticity of James denied by, 145.
CALF, the golden, 287.
CALHOUN, Rev. S. H., on biblical wine, 398.
CALVIN, John, books doubted by, 36;
Jude doubted by, 145;
on Revelation, 151.
CAMEL, see ZOOLOGY.
CAMPBELL, Rev. Dr., on lost books, 23.
CAMPBELL, Rev. A., on slavery, 377.
CANAAN, conquest of, 58;
no Hebrews in, 263.
CANAANITES IN PALESTINE, 62.
CANNIBALISM, 367;
among primitive Christians, 369;
in Russia, 370.
CANON, the Jewish-Christian, 21–25;
founding of, by Irenaeus, 25;
completion of, 29;
Dr. McClintock on, 31;
fixed by modern councils, 32;
the Roman Catholic, 32;
the Greek, 33;
Authorized Version, 33;
ancient Christian scholars on, 33–35;
Protestant scholars on, 35–37;
the Muratori, 34;
books doubted by Origen, 34;
Ensebius’s list of acknowledged and disputed books, 35;
ten omitted by Chrysostom, 35;
books doubted by, Calvin, Erasmus, Zwingle, Beza, Lardner, Evanson,
Schleiermacher, Sealiger, Davidson, Eichorn, Whiston, 36;
Luther’s list, 37, 38.
CAPTIVITY, number of Jews who came out of, 231ff.
CARPENTER, Jesus so called, 242.
CARPOCRATIANS, Jude written to combat heresies of, 145;
love feasts of, 390.
CASTALIO, his translation, Beza on, 171.
CAVE, on early cannibalism, 369;
on adulteries of primitive Christians, 390.
CETHUBIM, 10.
CHADWICK, Rev. J. W., on Pauline epistles, 158.
CHALDEANS, first heard of, 99.
CHAMBERS’S ENCYCLOPEDIA, on Origen’s canon, 34;
on the Chaldeans, 99;
on genuineness of the gospels, 126;
on 2d Peter, 146;
on authorship of I. John, 147;
on Tyre, 296.
CHANGES, textual, 167.
CHANNING, W. E., on N. T., polygamy, 384.
CHEATING, 345ff;
of the Egyptians by the Israelites, 347.
CHEEVER, Dr. Geo. B., biblical inerrancy asserted by, 163;
on the harmony of science and Bible, 271.
CHEMISTRY OF THE BIBLE, 286.
CHESTNUT-TREE, see BOTANY.
CHEYNE, T. K., on composite character of Isaiah, 84;
declares 9th chapter an
interpolation, 85;
prophecy pronounced a forgery by, 301.
CHILDBIRTH, pains of, attributed to a curse, 286.
CHILDREN, alleged slaughter of by Herod, 268.
CHILDREN, unkindness to, 409–411.
CHINA, sacred books of, 7.
CHRIST, his mention of Moses immaterial, 54;
his mention of Jonah, 89;
second coming of, a prediction not fulfilled, 303;
taught in parables to mislead, 342;
adulterous women in the genealogy of, 390.
CHRISTIAN FATHERS, gospels unknown to, 113–119.
CHRISTIAN REGISTER, two-wine theory rejected by, 399.
CHRISTIANS, disciples first so called, 247.
CHRISTIANS, primitive, dissensions among, 144;
given to lying, 342, 343;
guilty of cannibalism, 361,
369;
adulteries of, 390;
used intoxicating wine at Lord’s Supper, 399.
CHRONICLES, books of examined, 105;
fragmentary character of, 106.
CHRYSOSTOM, ST., says that the Jews lost or burnt sacred books,
22, 23, 166;
ten books omitted from canon of, 35;
on authors of the Gospels, 119;
on place of writing of Matthew, 124;
Acts declared unknown by, 144.
CHURCH, the Catholic, 25;
Petrine, 27.
CHURCHES, Revelation rejected by the seven of Asia, 150.
CIRCUMCISION, performed by Paul, 257.
CLARKSON, his abolition bill, 377.
CLEMENT, epistle of, 36.
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA, successor of Irenaeus, 26;
apocryphal books cited by, 34, 119.
CLEMENT OF ROME, epistles of, 110, 113, 119;
Hebrews ascribed to, 157.
CLERICAL ERRORS, 165.
CLERMONT CODEX, on Hebrews, 157.
CODES OF THE PENTATEUCH, 68;
dates of, 71.
COLENSO, BISHOP, on six-day creation, 274;
his analysis of Genesis, 71.
COLOSSIANS, 152, 154, 155, 158, 159, 160.
COMMANDMENTS, the Ten, two copies of, 68;
not perfect, 332.
COMMUNION, significance of, 368.
COMPARISON of Hebrew and Septuagint versions, 173–178.
COMTE, A., on benefits of chemical science, 287, 288;
his moral teaching, 330.
CONCEPTION, miraculous, 137,
286;
not taught by Peter and Paul, 251.
CONCUBINAGE, practiced by Catholic clergy, 385;
allowed by Luther and other Reformers, 385, 386, 389.
CONEY, see ZOOLOGY.
CONFUCIANISM, canonical books of, 7.
CONFUCIUS, his religion, 7–8.
CONJECTURES and guesses, 169.
CONSONANTS, Lord’s prayer in, 169.
CONSTANTINOPLE, sixth council of, 30.
CONTRADICTIONS as to the Jewish kings, 198–209, 210–230;
of the Gospels, 238.
CONWAY, M. D., on Christianity and woman, 407, 408.
COPERNICUS, Luther’s opinion of, 273.
COPIES OF THE BIBLE, differences between, 178.
COPYISTS, errors of, 165–166.
CORINTHIANS, 152, 153, 159, 160.
CORN, plucking of ears of permitted, 350.
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, 410.
CORRUPTIONS, textual, 163–180;
by scribes, 167.
COSMOGONIES, the two of Genesis, 181–187.
COUNCILS, Christian, 30–33;
of Nice, 30;
William Penn on, 32;
Dean Milman on, 32;
of Greek Church, 33, 438.
CRAWDER, Rev., on slavery, 378.
CREATION, two accounts of, 67, 181–187;
purposes of, 187;
contradictory dates of, according to the Hebrew, Samaritan and
Septuagint Bibles, 261;
order of, 275.
CREDIBILITY OF THE BIBLE, 163–305.
CREDNER, on Revelation, 150.
CRITICISM, the higher Hupfeld on certainty and consequences of,
72;
pioneers of, 72, 73.
CRITICS, the higher, 72.
CRUCIFIXION, John the disciple at the, 132;
time of, and other contradictions relating to, 243ff.
CUSTOMS, who was called from receipt of, 241.
CUVIER, on ruminants, 282.
CYRENIUS, governor of Syria, 240, 267.
CYRUS, King, flourished nearly two centuries after Isaiah, 84, 85, 92, 103;
his decree to rebuild Jerusalem, 302.
DAILLE, M., on early forgeries, 343.
DAMASCUS, Paul’s conversion on journey to, 248;
in prophecy, 296.
DAMASCUS, Pope, Jerome’s address to, 178.
DAN, an anachronism, 61.
DANA, on the order of creation, 275, 276.
DANIEL, book of examined, 102–104;
an alleged prophecy, 302.
DARIUS, “the Median,” 103, 267.
DARIUS, the Persian, 105.
DATES OF BOOKS OF BIBLE, 46, 48, 49.
DAVID, not the author of Psalms, 95;
contradictory statements relating to, 198–202;
census of, 284;
character of, 335;
a liar, 341;
a robber, 350;
sons of Saul sacrificed by, 362;
a polygamist, 383;
animal sacrifices by, 412.
DAVIDSON, Dr. S., on Papias, and Justin Martyr, and N. T. canon,
24;
on canonicity and inspiration of N. T. books, 25;
on the incompetence of Christian fathers, 28, 29, 30;
would exclude Esther, 36;
on Christ’s alleged recognition of Moses, 54;
the opinion of England’s learned voiced by, 74;
on composite character of Zechariah, 90;
his admission as to books quoted by Papias, 117, 118;
Matthew admitted to be anonymous by, 123;
unknown authorship of Mark, 126;
against Johannine authorship, of John, 135;
against authenticity of pastoral epistles, 157;
on textual changes, 167.
DAY, meaning of the word in Genesis, 274.
DEBORAH, song of, 354.
DECALOGUE, two copies of, 68;
an imperfect moral code, 332.
DELUGE, two accounts of, 68, 285.
DEUEL, alias Reuel, 169.
DEUTERONOMIC CODE, 68;
its style, 70.
DEUTERONOMY, when written and why, 51ff;
Dr. Kuenen on, 51;
Dr. Oort on, 52;
Dr. Briggs on, 52.
De WETTE, on origin of Hebrew Bible, 55;
conclusions of German critics presented by, 73;
on Ephesians, 155;
on the pastoral epistles, 157.
DIAL, SUN, return of shadow on, 272.
DIONYSIUS, on Revelation, 150.
DISCIPLE, the, whom Jesus loved, 133.
DISCIPLES, the twelve, names of, 241.
DISCORDANT VERSIONS AND TRANSLATIONS, 172.
DISCREPANCY, numerical, 290.
DIVINITY, Horn’s test of, 164.
DIVORCE, biblical law of, 406, 407.
DODWELL, Dr., his admission as to the New Testament, 112.
DOUAY BIBLE, 44.
DOUGLASS, F., on religious sanction for cruelty to slaves, 381.
DRAPER, J. W., on science and the church, 292.
EBIONITES, their gospel and doctrine, 121.
ECCLESIASTES, book of, 100, 101.
EDEN, two stories of, 181–187;
rivers of, 278.
EDINBURGH REVIEW, on the rejection of Revelation, 151.
EDOM, an anachronism, 61.
EDUCATION, discouraged by the Bible, 402.
EGLON, assassination of, 353.
EGYPT, its desolation falsely prophesied by Isaiah, 296.
EGYPTIAN BIBLE, description of, 40, 438;
New Testament, 172.
EGYPTIANS, cheating of by the Israelites, 347.
EGYPTIANS, gospel of, 36, 127.
EHUD, an assassin, 353.
EICHORN, books rejected by, 36;
against the authenticity of the pastoral epistles, 157.
ELISHA, not named in Chronicles, 82;
edifying tales of, 312;
a liar, 341;
and the children, 411.
ELOHIM, deity, so called, 181.