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From the grant of Genesis to the judgment of Revelation, the sixty-six books of the Bible are one continuous case: the title conveyed in the garden, the breach and the severance at the fall, the statute given at Sinai, the covenant lawsuits of the prophets, the substitution of the party in the Gospels, the opinions of the apostles, and the final judgment entered at the last day. This volume walks the whole canon book by book, and sets each book beside the legal office it performs: trust, conveyance, statute, registry, complaint, decree, opinion, and judgment.
- CHAPTER I — GENESIS: THE TRUST, THE STEWARD, AND THE SEVERANCE OF TITLE - CHAPTER II — EXODUS: THE LAWSUIT, THE CHARTER, AND THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT - CHAPTER III — LEVITICUS: THE STATUTE BOOK AND THE REMEDIAL SCHEME - CHAPTER IV — NUMBERS: THE LEDGER AND THE WILDERNESS ADMINISTRATION - CHAPTER V — DEUTERONOMY: THE SECOND READING AND THE CHARGE TO THE HEIRS - CHAPTER VI — JOSHUA: THE TITLE REGISTRY AND THE QUIET TITLE ACTION - CHAPTER VII — JUDGES: THE CIRCUIT COURT ERA, WHERE EVERY MAN DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES - CHAPTER VIII — RUTH: THE REDEMPTION AND THE KINSMAN - CHAPTER IX — THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL: THE PROPHET REFOUNDED AND THE CROWN ESTABLISHED - CHAPTER X — THE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL: THE THRONE AND THE EVERLASTING COVENANT - CHAPTER XI — THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS: THE TEMPLE AND THE LAWSUITS AGAINST THE THRONE - CHAPTER XII — THE SECOND BOOK OF THE KINGS: THE DECLINE AND THE EXILE - CHAPTER XIII — THE FIRST BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES: THE RECORD RE-FILED FROM THE PRIESTS' REGISTER - CHAPTER XIV — THE SECOND BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES: THE KINGS AUDITED BY THE HOUSE - CHAPTER XV — EZRA: THE RESTORATION OF THE RECORD - CHAPTER XVI — NEHEMIAH: THE REBUILDING OF THE WALL AND THE RESTORATION OF THE RECORD - CHAPTER XVII — ESTHER: THE IRREVOCABLE DECREE AND THE COUNTER-WRITING - CHAPTER XVIII — JOB: THE LAWSUIT OF HEAVEN - CHAPTER XIX — PSALMS: THE SONGBOOK OF THE JURISDICTION - CHAPTER XX — PROVERBS: THE MAXIMS OF THE COMMON LAW - CHAPTER XXI — ECCLESIASTES: THE APPELLATE REVIEW OF ALL UNDER THE SUN - CHAPTER XXII — THE SONG OF SOLOMON: THE LAW OF THE MARRIAGE COVENANT - CHAPTER XXIII — ISAIAH: THE GREAT INDICTMENT AND THE NEW COVENANT PROMISE - CHAPTER XXIV — JEREMIAH: THE BREACH OF COVENANT ACTION - CHAPTER XXV — LAMENTATIONS: THE JUDGMENT ENTERED - CHAPTER XXVI — EZEKIEL: THE RESTORATION SURVEY - CHAPTER XXVII — DANIEL: THE APPELLATE COURT OF THE EMPIRES - CHAPTER XXVIII — HOSEA: THE FAITHFUL HUSBAND'S SUIT - CHAPTER XXIX — JOEL: THE DAY OF THE LORD - CHAPTER XXX — AMOS: THE SOCIAL STATUTES - CHAPTER XXXI — OBADIAH: EDOM'S SENTENCE - CHAPTER XXXII — JONAH: THE JUDGMENT STAYED - CHAPTER XXXIII — MICAH: THE SUMMARY OF THE COVENANT - CHAPTER XXXIV — NAHUM: NINEVEH'S SENTENCE - CHAPTER XXXV — HABAKKUK: THE PLEA AND THE ANSWER - CHAPTER XXXVI — ZEPHANIAH: THE COURT CALENDAR OF THE COVENANT - CHAPTER XXXVII — HAGGAI: THE REBUILDING OBLIGATION - CHAPTER XXXVIII — ZECHARIAH: THE RESTORATION VISIONS - CHAPTER XXXIX — MALACHI: THE FINAL INDICTMENT - CHAPTER XL — MATTHEW: THE KINGDOM CHARTER - CHAPTER XLI — MARK: THE SERVANT'S ACT - CHAPTER XLII — LUKE: THE VERIFIED RECORD - CHAPTER XLIII — JOHN: THE TESTIMONY OF THE WORD - CHAPTER XLIV — ACTS: THE PRACTICE MANUAL OF THE NEW ADMINISTRATION - CHAPTER XLV — ROMANS: THE OPINION ON JUSTIFICATION - CHAPTER XLVI — 1 CORINTHIANS: THE OPINIONS OF THE CHANCELLOR OF THE ASSEMBLIES - CHAPTER XLVII — 2 CORINTHIANS: THE DEFENSE OF THE COVENANT MINISTRY - CHAPTER XLVIII — GALATIANS: THE FREEDOM SUIT AGAINST THE BOND - CHAPTER XLIX — EPHESIANS: THE PROBATE AND TRUST BRIEF OF THE NEW COVENANT - CHAPTER L — PHILIPPIANS: THE JOY BRIEF FROM CUSTODY - CHAPTER LI — COLOSSIANS: THE SUFFICIENCY OPINION - CHAPTER LII — 1 THESSALONIANS: THE DOCKET OF THE LAST THINGS - CHAPTER LIII — 2 THESSALONIANS: THE DAY OF THE LORD - CHAPTER LIV — 1 TIMOTHY: THE ORDERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH - CHAPTER LV — 2 TIMOTHY: THE CHARGE TO THE SUCCESSOR - CHAPTER LVI — TITUS: THE ORDERING OF THE CHURCHES - CHAPTER LVII — PHILEMON: SUBSTITUTIONARY SURETY - CHAPTER LVIII — HEBREWS: THE BETTER TESTAMENT - CHAPTER LIX — JAMES: THE EVIDENCE RULE - CHAPTER LX — 1 PETER: SUFFERING AND THE JUDGMENT OF THE HOUSE OF GOD - CHAPTER LXI — 2 PETER: THE DOCKET OF THE END AND THE DAY OF THE LORD - CHAPTER LXII — 1 JOHN: THE WITNESS STATEMENT OF THE WORD OF LIFE - CHAPTER LXIII — 2 JOHN: THE QUARANTINE ORDER OF THE HOUSEHOLD - CHAPTER LXIV — 3 JOHN: THE LETTER OF COMMENDATION AND THE POWER OF THE DOOR - CHAPTER LXV — JUDE: THE CONTENDING BRIEF FOR THE ONCE DELIVERED FAITH - CHAPTER LXVI — REVELATION: THE END OF THE CASE AND THE PERFECTED TITLE
Each chapter opens with the book's own voice, tells its story, names the office it performs in the one litigation, and calls forward to the deeper volumes that carry its doctrines at full weight: the Torah Blueprint, the Psalms Codices, the Book of Maxims, the Proverbs Codex, and the Complete Book of Covenants.