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Definition of II Esdras
1. Noun. An Apocryphal book of angelic revelations.
Lexicographical Neighbors of II Esdras
Literary usage of II Esdras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"Uriel also appears as an angel giving warning of the future in II Esdras, where
he tells the signs of the times to come, although with much reluctance, ..."
2. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503: The Voyages of the Northmen by Julius E. Olson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906)
"The Apocryphal books of I. and II. Esdras were known as III. and IV. Esdras in
the Middle Ages, and the canonical books in the Vulgate called I. and II. ..."
3. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim (1883)
"20, the (II. Esdras in our Apocrypha), written at other to Eccles. ... fall chapters
in our Apocryphal II. Esdras are (see especially the clear statement in ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"IV Ezra (the II Esdras of the English Apocrypha), to which the first two chapters
are a Christian prefix, is a beautiful Jewish apocalyptic philosophy, ..."
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