In the Gospels, the Lord quotes all the books of Moses.  He quotes

several of the Psalms, and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea,

Jonah, Micah, Zechariah and Malachi as Scripture and authoritative.  This is,

of course, in addition to the references to the Law, and to the Scriptures,

embracing the whole canon.  The Lord does not quote from any of the

Apocryphal books.

The Acts quote Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Samuel, Psalms, Isaiah,

Joel, Amos and Habakkuk.

Paul quotes Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Samuel,

Kings, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Joel, Habakkuk and

James quotes Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Kings, Chronicles, Job,

Proverbs and Isaiah.

Peter quotes Exodus, Leviticus, Psalms, Proverbs and Isaiah.

The Revelation quotes Genesis, Numbers, Proverbs, Isaiah, Ezekiel,

Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Zephaniah and Zechariah.

The manner of quotation, and the fact that some quotations agree with

the LXX, some with the Hebrew, and some with neither, must be a matter for

further study.  We give the above list simply as further evidence in the

matter of the Old Testament canon.

The twenty-seven books that compose the New Testament, written by

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, James, Peter and Jude, have the

uninterrupted testimony of antiquity to their genuineness, and there is

absolutely no reason for supposing imposition or fraud.  Michaelis says that

in the case of the writings of the New Testament the testimony is much

stronger than in the case of any other ancient writings such as Xenophon,

Caesar, Tacitus and the like, for the books of the New Testament were

addressed to large societies in widely distant parts of the world,

in whose presence they were often read, and who acknowledged them as being

the autographs of the writers themselves.

We must remember that, unlike other writings that have come down to us

from antiquity, those of the New Testament were read over three-quarters of

the known world, and that an unbroken succession of writers, from the very

age of the apostles to our own time, make continual reference to or quotation

from the New Testament Scriptures, and further, that these writers include

not only friends but foes.

One quotation from the writings of Peter makes it very evident that the

early church was quite prepared to receive as Scripture the writings of the

apostles and prophets, for he speaks of 'all the epistles of Paul' (2 Pet.

3:16), and speaks of them as on an equality with 'the other Scriptures',

which, when we know the mind of the Jew on the matter, is a very great

admission.  Somewhat similar is the association by Peter of Old Testament and

New Testament writings as of equal authority when he uses the exhortation: