ESDRAS

BOOKS OF, two apocand other editions, are incorporated with the canonical books of Scripture. In the Vulgate the canonical books of Ezra and Nehenviah are called the first and second, and the apocryphal books the third and fourth books of “sdras. The Geneva Bible (1569) first adopted the present nomenclature, calling the two apocryphal books first and second Esdras. The subject of the first book of Hsdras is the same as that of Hzra and Nehemiah, and in general it appears to be copied from the canonical Scriptures. The second book of Esdras is supposed to have been either of much later date or to have been interpolated by Christian writers.