Fifty-One
This is the number of Divine revelation,
for there are 24 books in the Old Testament,
and 27 books in the New Testament,
making 51 in all.
This is, of course, reckoning the Divine separation of the books, as exhibited in the MSS, which form our only authority, and not reckoning
according to man's manipulation of them; for both Jewish and Gentile fancies and reasonings make quite a different and conflicting number. |
