II Esdras

Tribes (Ewald, Hist. of Isr.), which perhaps originated in a few verses of II Esdras, it has become famous, because it has coincided with a great historical fact.

Timaeus 2006

Esdras continued the public reading of the Law every day of the feast; and two days after its close a strict fast was held, and "they stood, and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers" (II Esdras, ix, 2).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

We should not expect to find in I Esdras, any more than in II Esdras, a complete account of the events connected with the Restoration, even a complete record of the lives of Esdras and Nehemias.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

IV Esdras Such is the title of the book in most Latin manuscripts; the (Protestant) English apocrypha, however, give it as II Esdras, from the opening words: "The second book of the prophet Esdras".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

Bible, call I and II Esdras of the Vulgate respectively Ezra and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

As remarked above, this book formed in the Jewish canon, together with II Esdras, a single volume.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

Bethacharam mentioned in Jeremias vi, 1, and II Esdras, iii, 14; but be that as it may, there is a general consensus of critical opinion to the effect that the ancient Carem occupied the site of the modern

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

One day I found my Bible open at II Esdras, second chapter, and my eyes fell on the fifteenth verse: 'Mother, embrace thy children and bring them up with gladness.'

The Measure of a Man Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

Like the tale of Troy, or the legend of the Ten Tribes (Ewald, Hist. of Isr.), which perhaps originated in a few verses of II Esdras, it has become famous, because it has coincided with a great historical fact.

Timaeus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

And this book itself, which was confirmed by Josiah for the law of God, and with it all the history of the works of God, was lost in the Captivity, and sack of the city of Jerusalem, as appears by that of II Esdras, 14. 21,

Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651