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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 245 these are the names. Leviticus, Waikra, and he called. Num bers, Anmesphekodlim. Deuteronomy, Elle haddabarim, that is, these are the words. Jesus the son of Nave, in Hebrew, Joshue ben Nun. Judges and Ruth, in one book, with the Hebrews, which they call Sophetim. Of Kings, the first and second, one book, with them called Samuel, the called of God. The third and fourth of Kings, also in one book with them, and called, Wahammelech Dabid,* which means, and king David. The first and second book of the Paralipomena, contained in onevolume with them, and called Dibre Hamaim, which means the words, i. e. the records of days. The first and second of Esdras, in one, called Ezra, i. e. an assistant. The book of Psalms, sepher Thehillim. The Proverbs of Solomon, Misloth. Ecclesiastes, Coheleth. The Song of Songs, Sir Hasirim. Isaiah, lesaia. Jeremiah, with the Lamentations, and his Epistle, in one, Je remiah. Daniel, Daniel. Ezekiel, Jeezkel. Job, Job. Esther, also with the Hebrews, Esther. Besides these, there are, also, the Maccabees, which are inscribed Sarbeth sarbane el.' " These, then, are the books that he mentions in the book men tioned above. But in the first book of his Commentaries on the gospel of Matthew, following the Ecclesiastical Canon, he attests that he knows of only four gospels, as follows : " As I have un derstood from tradition, respecting the four gospels, which are the only undisputed ones in the whole church of God throughout the world. The first is written according to Matthew, the same that was once a publican, but afterwards an apostle of Jesus Christ, who having published it for the Jewish converts, wrote it in the Hebrew. The second is according to Mark, who com posed it, as Peter explained to him, whom he also acknowledges as his son in his general Epistle, saying, ' The elect church in Babylon, salutes you, as also Mark my son.' And the third, according to Luke, the gospel commended by Paul, which was David is here written with a /3, and we have given it according to our usual Greek pronunciation. But Origen appears to have pronounced the beta as v ; as also the Septuagint, who, in several instances give the name A*.*, from the He brew, where it would be impossible to suppose they had the sound of b. Some of the older grammarians, as Clenardus, follow the same pronunciation.