The third book of Esdras I throw into the Elbe.

Table Talk, "Of God's Word," XXIV

 I am so great an enemy to the second book of Maccabees and to Esther that I wish they had not come to us at all, for they have too many heathen unnaturalities.

Table Talk, "Of God's Word," XXIV

The book of the Kings is excellent—a hundred times better than the Chronicles, which constantly pass over the the most important facts, without any details whatever.

Table Talk, "Of God's Word," XXV