those of the books belonging to the Hagiographa simply the Holy Spirit (the Holy Spirit, but not in the degree necessary for prophetic revelation).  But this distinction is untenable.  Who had the spirit of prophecy if not Daniel?  In the opinion of some modern scholars, they reckoned to the Prophets only books written by men who were prophets in the stricter sense of the term; that is, men trained to the prophetical office, and exercising it as their profession; while the writings of men like David, Solomon, and Daniel, who though they had the Spirit of prophecy, were yet in their office not prophets, but rulers and statesmen, were assigned to the Hagiographa.  But this is inconsistent with the fact that the book of Ruth (which in respect to authorship must go with that of Judges) and also the book of Lamentations are in the Hagiographa.  Others, with more probability, find the main ground of classification in the character of the writings themselves—­the Law, as the foundation of the Theocracy; the Prophets, that record the history of the Theocracy and make prophetic revelations concerning it; the sacred Writings, occupied with the personal appropriation of the truths of revelation, and as such exhibiting the religious life of the covenant people in its inward and outward form.  But even here we do not find perfect consistency.

(B.) Classification of the Greek Version of the Seventy. The ancient Greek version of the Old Testament, called the Septuagint (Latin Septuaginta, seventy), because, according to Jewish tradition, it was the work of seventy men, interweaves the apocryphal with the canonical books.  Its arrangement is as follows, the apocryphal books and parts of books being indicated by italic letters.  We follow the edition of Van Ess from the Vatican manuscript, which omits the apocryphal Prayer of Manasseh: 

1.  Genesis. 2.  Exodus. 3.  Leviticus. 4.  Numbers. 5.  Deuteronomy. 6.  Joshua. 7.  Judges. 8.  Ruth. 9. 1 Kings (our 1 Samuel). 10. 2 Kings (our 2 Samuel). 11. 3 Kings (our 1 Kings). 12. 4 Kings (our 2 Kings). 13. 1 Chronicles. 14. 2 Chronicles. 15. 1 Esdras. 16. 2 Esdras (our Ezra). 17.  Nehemiah. 18. Tobit. 19. Judith. 20.  Esther, with apocryphal additions. 21.  Job. 22.  Psalms. 23.  Proverbs. 24.  Ecclesiastes. 25.  Canticles. 26. Wisdom of Solomon. 27. Ecclesiasticus. 28.  Hosea. 29.  Amos. 30.  Micah. 31.  Joel. 32.  Obadiah. 33.  Jonah. 34.  Nahum. 35.  Habakkuk. 36.  Zephaniah. 37.  Haggai. 38.  Zechariah. 39.  Malachi. 40.  Isaiah. 41.  Jeremiah. 42. Baruch. 43.  Lamentations. 44. Epistle of Jeremiah. 45.  Ezekiel. 46.  Daniel, with apocryphal additions—­Song of the Three Children in the Furnace, History of Susannah, Story of Bel and the Dragon. 47. 1 Maccabees. 48. 2 Maccabees. 49. 3 Maccabees.