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قراءة كتاب Watson Refuted Being an Answer to The Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters to the Bishop Of Llandaff

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Watson Refuted
Being an Answer to The Apology for the Bible, in a Series
of Letters to the Bishop Of Llandaff

Watson Refuted Being an Answer to The Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters to the Bishop Of Llandaff

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Pentateuch. No person in the least acquainted with the history can deny that it has suffered great alterations; 1 and I have already noticed the opinion of the best informed fathers of the church upon the non-existence of the Pentateuch, several centuries prior to Esdras. I now beg to be informed, how we are to decide, if Hilkiah, in the reign of Josias, collected from tradition, or some old book he found in a chest, the precepts of the law? and whether the other famous scribe, Esdras, did not compile from hearsay, and some imperfect and scattered manuscripts of no authority, together with a great many Babylonish traditions, those venerable five books of Moses? We are informed, in one of the books that bears his name, that Esdras was the wisest of his cotemporaries, and therefore a very fit and probable person to write books out of old legends.

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