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^[248]
 
Catechetical Lectures
,
4.33-38. Emphasis added.

^[249]
Catechetical Lectures
, 4.36.

^[250]
This division is noted even by
Ellis, 21.

^[251]
Catechical Lectures
, 11.15,
[L. audi Prophetam dicentem; Gk. akoue tou prophetou legontos].

^[252]
Catechetical Lectures
, 9.2,
“...according to Solomon, who says....” Also see
Catechetical Lectures
,
12.5.

^[253]
Catechetical Lectures
, 9.16.

^[254]
Catechetical Lectures
, 6.4
quotes Job and Sir;
Catechetical Lectures
13.8 quotes 1 Cor twice and then
Sir with no qualification. Also,
Catechetical Lectures
11.19.

^[255]
Catechetical Lectures
14.25
and
Catechetical Lectures
16.31 respectively.

^[256]
“Canon,”
ABD
1:838.

^[257]
Canon 60.

^[258]
See Bruce,
Canon
, 80.

^[259]
Origen: “…found in all the Church”
and “[Tobit and Judith are]…used in all the churches” (Susanna, 2 
History
of Susanna
, 13, et al.); Athanasius, “…the Fathers decreed [that these
books] should be read to those who have lately come into the fold, and seek to
be catechized, and who study to learn the Christian doctrine” (
Thirty-ninth
Festal Letter
); Cyril of Jerusalem, “But let all the rest [not listed as
canonical, but is read in the Church] be put aside in a secondary rank. And
whatever books are not read in Churches, these read not even by thyself…” (
Catechetical
Lectures
, 4.36).

^[260]
This appears to be the consensus
among Protestant scholars. Westcott believes this canon to be a later addition
(Westcott,
Bible
, 170). Ryle and Reuss calls it spurious (Ryle,
Canon
,
228 and Reuss,
History
, 180). Ellis, following Theodore Kahn, calls it a
later appendage. (Earle E. Ellis,
The Old Testament in Early Christianity:
Canon and Interpretation in Light of Modern Research
(Wipf and Stock
Publishers, 2003), 21). F. F. Bruce, likewise, calls its genuineness into
question (Bruce,
Canon
, 80).

^[261]
For example, there are instances in
Church history where copies of the Bible were prohibited due to the pervasive
circulation of adulterated translations and/or heretical footnotes. These measures
were disciplinary in that they only affected the practice in limited localities
and they lasted only until the problem was resolved. These prohibitions were
not doctrinal (i.e. they did not constitute a repudiation of Scripture per se
nor the publication and distribution of Scripture), but disciplinary. Had they
been doctrinal the prohibition would have been applied universally throughout
the Church and would have lasted in perpetuity.

^[262]
Prologue to the Psalms,
15.

^[263]
See Howorth, “Jerome,”
324.

^[264]
On the Trinity
, 4:42, “As you
have listened already to Moses and Isaiah, so listen now to Jeremiah
inculcating the same truth as they…[quotes Bar 3:36-38].”

^[265]
On the Trinity
, 1.7, “from
the prophet’s voice” [L. propheticis vocibus]; Also,
Tract. In Ps
118.8
[L. et rursum propheta];
Ps 118. Lettera
19.8;
Ps
118.
Lettera
19.8, [L. Et Spiritus Dei, secundum Prophetam, replevit orbem terrarum] Ws
1:7 [quoted between Acts 17:28 and Jer 23:24 without qualification];
Tract.
In Ps
135.11, [L. docet propheta dicens];
Letter
, 9, [L. Clamat
Propheta dicens].

^[266]
Letter 8; Psalm
118. (Littera
V.9);
Tract. Psalms
128.9, and
Tract. De Psalms
41.12.

^[267]
Prol. To Psalms
20,
Tract.
In Psalms
140.5; and
Ex Operibus Historicis Frag
. 3.24.

^[268]
Tract. Psalms
125.6–(Jdt
16:3). Hilary continues by quoting Isaiah, John and Colossians without any
distinction or qualification.

^[269]
Tract. In Psalms
129.7.

^[270]
On the Trinity
, Book 4.8
quotes Is, Jn, Mk, 1 Tm, Mal, Pss and Mt before Susanna and follows with quotes
from Is, Acts, Pss, Jn, 1 Tm, Jn and Ex all without distinction or
qualification. Also see,
Tract. In
52; Ps 19.

^[271]
On the Trinity
, Book
 4.16, [L. Sed haec divinae Scripturae ratio non recipit. Omnia enim
secundum Prophetam facta ex nihilo sunt].

^[272]
Tract in Psalms
134.25;
Lib.
Contra Const. Imp
. 6.

^[273]
On the Holy Spirit,
19.

^[274]
Letter 6, Ad Nectarii Uxorem
,
2.

^[275]
See Westcott,
Bible
, 168.

^[276]
Oration
30.13.

^[277]
Oration,
43.23.

^[278]
See
Oration
7.14, 19 quotes
Jb, Ws, Pss and Jer;
Oration
21.17 quotes Jn, Pss, 1 Cor, Heb, Ws, Jn,
Gn, Pss and Rev;
Oration
40.6 quotes 2 Kg, Lk, Mt, Lk, Acts, Mt and Ws;
In
Oration
41.14 Ws is used to “prove” that the Holy Spirit is the
Author of spiritual regeneration. It is quoted between quotes from Jn and 1 Sm;
Oration
42.6 quotes Rom, Ez, Pss, Ws, Zec, Pss and Hb.

^[279]
See
Oration
2.64.

^[280]
See
Oration
7.1;
Oration
40.18.

^[281]
See Oration 37.6, [L. Item alio
loco...(quotes Sir 3:11)].

^[282]
See
Oration
37.18.

^[283]
Oration
45.15, “…which are
also called in the Scripture the Seed of the Chaldeans.” [L. Scriptura vocat].
Emphasis added.

^[284]
Oration
, 43.70. The examples
run from chapter 70-75.

^[285]
Carmen
, 1.1.12, as quoted in
W.A. Jurgens’
The Faith of the Early Fathers
(Collegeville, Minnesota:
The Liturgical Press, 1979), 2.42.

^[286]
Gregory’s list is nearly identical
to Athanasius. Both exclude Esther and claim to base their number of books upon
the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet.

^[287]
Song
, 2.2.8 (found among the
writings of Gregory of Nazianzus) as quoted in Jurgens, 2.66.

^[288]
Breen,
Introduction
, 397.
Also see,
Iambics to Seleucus
, 2.

^[289]
See F. L. Cross and E. A. Livington,
eds.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
, 2 ed., (New
York/Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1983), 232.

^[290]
Henry Denzinger,
The Sources of
Catholic Dogma
, 13 ed., trans. Roy J. Deferrari (St. Louis, MO: B. Herder
Book Co., 1954), 84.

^[291]
Howorth believes Jerome, who was
Pope Damasus’ secretary at this time, was in sympathy with it pronouncement on
the Canon (that accepted the Deuterocanon), but later abandoned it for his new
idea of Hebrew Verity (which adopted the shorter rabbinical canon). See
Howorth, “Jerome,”
322.

^[292]
Howorth, ibid.

^[293]
Origenism is a heresy that claimed
to follow heretical beliefs found in the writings of Origen.

^[294]
See
Panarion
8.6, “… There
are also two other books near to them in substance [Gk. emphilekto], the Wisdom
of Sirach and the Wisdom of Solomon, beside some other apocryphal [Gk.
enapokruphon] books. All these holy books [Gk. hierai biblioi] also taught
Judaism the things kept by the law until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ”
(as quoted in Ellis, 23). Epiphanius diverges in terminology from Athanasius by
labeling the Deuterocanon “apocrypha.”

^[295]
Adversus Haereses
, Haeres.
76.5. Emphasis added. [L. omnibus denique Scripturae libris percursis; Gk. kai
pasais haplos graphais theiais].

^[296]
See Reuss,
History
, 172.

^[297]
Adversus Haereses, Book I, Haeres
.
24.6; 1, 32.8; 1,42.9; 1, 42
Refut.
70, Book 2, 58.4.

^[298]
See
Adversus Haereses
, Book
2, 59.7;
Adversus Haereses
, Book 2, 64.39.

^[299]
Adversus Haereses
. Book 2,
65.1.

^[300]
Adversus Haereses
, Book 1,
Haeres 24.15.

^[301]
cf.
Adversus Haereses,
Book
2, 64.39;
Adversus Haereses,
Book 2, 64.34;
Adversus Haereses,
Book 3, 74 confut. 31.

^[302]
Adversus Haresees,
Book 1,
30.25, [L. quae causa est sur in Maccabaeorum libris scriptum sit].

^[303]
Adversus Haereses
, Book 1,
31, [L. Novit enim omnia Deus antequam fiant, ‘ut est Scriptum’].

^[304]
Adversus Haereses,
Book 3,
74.3, [L. Qui invenit omnem viam scientiae. Exstitisse vero divina Scirptura
non dubitat];
Adversus Haereses
Book 2, 57.2, [L. ut Scriptura
declarat];
Adversus Haereses
, Book 2, 57.9, [L. Scriptum est, inquit].

^[305]
Adversus Haereses,
Book 2,
69.31.

^[306]
See Westcott,
Bible
, 174;
Bruce,
Canon
, 81.

^[307]
Concerning Statues
, 7.

^[308]
Against Marcionist &
Manicheans
.

^[309]
See
Homilies on First Corinthians
,
15.

^[310]
Homilies on John
, 48, [L.
divinae Scripturae; Gk. apo tes theias graphes].

^[311]
Concerning Repentance
,
1.9.43.

^[312]
On the Duty of the Clergy
,
3.16.96.

^[313]
De Tobia
, [L. Lecto
prophetico libro, qui inscribitur Tobis, quamvis plene virtutes sancti prophetae
scriptura insinuaverint, tamen conpendiario mihi sermone de eius meritis
recensendis et operibus apud vos utendum arbitiror, ut ea quae scriptura
historico more digessit latius nos strictius comprehendamus virtutem eius
genera velus quodam breviario colligentes] as quoted in Hengel,
Septuagint
,
68 FN 33.

^[314]
On the Duty of the Clergy
,
3.13.82-85.

^[315]
Concerning Virgins
, 2.4.24.

^[316]
On the Duty of the Clergy
,
2.13.64-65, “[quotes Ws 7:29] We have spoken of its beauty, and proved it by
the witness of Scripture…[continues with other quotes from Ws].”

^[317]
On the Holy Spirit
, 3.6.36.

^[318]
On the Holy Spirit
, 3.18.135,
“Let them learn that we teach by
authority of the Scriptures
; for it is
written: [quotes Ws 7:22].” Emphasis added.

^[319]
On the Duty of the Clergy
, 1.2.5.

^[320]
On the Duty of the Clergy
,
1.40.205-208 and
On the Duty of the Clergy
, 2.24.

^[321]
On the Duty of the Clergy
,
3.18.107, “The sacrifice which was consumed in the time of Moses was a
sacrifice for sin, wherefore Moses said, as is written in the book of the
Maccabees....” Also
Letter
40, 33, “And now, O Emperor, I beg you not to
disdain to hear me who am in fear both for yourself and for myself, for it is
the voice of a Saint which says…[quotes 1 Mc 2:7].”