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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 2, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 47.

Question Corner

By C. J. C.

"Enquire, and make search, and ask diligently."

No. 668. When Was the Bible Compiled?

THE Old Testament canon was compiled by Ezra and Nehemiah. Of the New Testament it may be said that from the days of the apostles the Gospels and Epistles were read in the churches, and generally received. "We possess in the Latin Fragment, published by Muratori in 1740, something like a full list of the New Testament Scriptures from a writer who describes himself as contemporary with Pius, bishop of Rome about A.D. 150. A similar list may be made out from the Syriac Version, which can hardly be later than the second century. . . . The great Athanasius [A.D. 296-373] enumerates unhesitatingly all the Scriptures of the New Testament as we have them now; and so do the Latin fathers Augustine and Jerome."—S. S. Teacher's Combination Bible, Helps, sec. XIV, p. 34. In the Sinaitic MS. of the fourth century, the New Testament is entire.