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Excerpt from Critical History and Defence of the Old Testament Canon The character ascribed by most Christians to the Old Tes tament Scriptures, he goes on to say, brings them into colli sion with rational criticism in the interpretation of language, with the moral and religious conceptions of enlightened men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.