the Old Testament. Malachi lived after him, and in the first book of Chronicles (ch. 3) the genealogy of the sons of Zerubbabel is carried down to the time of Alexander the Great—about one hundred and thirty years subsequent to the time of Ezra. The probability is, therefore, that Ezra commenced the arrangement of the books, and that the canon of the Old Testament was completed by some other hand. The ‘prophets’ were divided into the former and the latter. Among the latter, Isaiah has uniformly held