It is not true that the church was preserved during the Babylonian captivity without the Scripture. Daniel is said at the end of the seventy years to have understood by the books the number of years (Dan. 9:2), and it is said that Ezra brought the book of the law (Neh. 8:2). The passage in 2(4) Esdras 4:23, being apocryphal, proves nothing. But although Ezra collected the sacred books into one body and even corrected some mistakes made through the negligence of the scribes, it does not follow that the church was entirely destitute of the Scriptures.
Francis Turretin — Institutes of Elenctic Theology
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