About 2 Esdras

Snowy · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:32 am Post subject: About 2 Esdras

2 Esdras is also known as 4 Ezra and considered an apocryphal book, it is both an easy read and a beneficial book to read.

4 Ezra ought to be seen as an encouragement to late first-century Jews that the promises of God will be fulfilled after all, but not in this age but the next, after the coming of the Messiah. It is also an exhortation to obey the law, because only the faithfully obedient will be saved.

The book today termed 2 Esdras is not in the Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, or Orthodox canon. It was written too late to be included in the Septuagint, but it was in an appendix to the Vulgate, and it is also found among the Apocrypha in the King James Version and Revised Standard Version.

Snowy