1530. Desiderius Erasmus, of Rotterdam 1534. Cardinal Cajetan, an Italian Bishop, and a commentator clxxii. elxxiii. clxxiv. clxxv. clxxvi. 1540. Santes Pagninus, an Italian, and translator of the Bible clxxvii. NUMB. Granting us the testimony of the Laodicean council lxiii., lxxiii. S. Basil the Great, one of the collectors of the Philocalia out of Origen's works, where he numbereth the canonical books of Scripture to be no more than we do Tobit, Wisdom, and Ecclesiasticus, neither canonized nor cited by him in those places which the Romanists allege out of him for that purpose lxv. ib. xxxvi. cvi. Elsewhere he maketh Philo to be the author of the book of Wisdom Ven. Bede, his testimony for the Church of England concerning the number of canonical books Joh. Beleth, the Rector of the University in Paris, noting the book of Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Tobit, and the Maccabees, to be apocryphal, and not received by the Church Card. Bellarmine, acknowledging that after the time of the Apostles no addition can be made to the canon of Scripture That it is not in the power of the (Roman) Church to make an apocryphal book become canonical cxxix. xlii. xvi., cxcvii. That the Council of Laodicea is for us That the book of Baruch is not numbered by itself among the canonical writers of the Scriptures, either by any Council, Father, or ancient Pope He is much troubled about the third book of Esdras, and the Roman edition of the Septuagint Bible lvii. lvi. Ixiii. By Card. Ximenius clxvi. cxxxiv. cxxxvii. cxlvi. clxv. clxxvii. lxvii. By Pagnin, Braciola, Birkman, Vatablus, and R. Stephen, all witnesses for us Iac. Billius, defending S. Amphilochius Sev. Binius, granting us the Council of Laodicea And acknowledging the third council of Carthage in the Roman edition to differ from other copies Bonaventure, concerning the writer of the book of Wisdom The Breviary used in the Church of Rome, which appointeth certain Lessons to be read out of the fourth book of Esdras, and yet it is not held by themselves to be canonical Brito, the expositor of S. Hierome's Prologues upon the Bible, excluding the apocryphal books from the canon of Scripture Luc. Brugensis, concerning the third book of Esdras P. Burgensis, an Hebrew born, and a Bishop in Spain Affirming the story of the Maccabees to be no canonical Scripture And that S. Paul referred not to that story in his Epistle to the Hebrews lxiii. lxiv. cv. C. cxlvi. clxi. clxii. civ. clxxiii. lxxiii. lxxxix. lvi. cxcii. The Complutensian Bible,which hath not in it the Third book of Esdras in Greek And noteth the other apocryphal books The Constitutions and Canons, set forth under the Apostles' names, both of them excluding the apocryphal books from the Old Testament lxiii. xl. Cv. xliv., xlv. Fr. Costerus, granting us the Council of Laodicea P. Cotton, acknowledging that the tenth chapter of S. John doth not canonize the First book of the Maccabees Covaruvias, granting us the testimony of Damascen The Council of Aix, the reverence and honour that they had there for our countryman Venerable Bede The Council of Aquileia, attesting the custom of the ancient Councils, to lay the Bible of God, as their rule, in the midst before them The Council of Basil invited the Greeks thither, deposed the Pope, and condemned the Council of Florence The cvi. liv. cliv., clx. books lxxxii., Council of Carthage, enumerating the of the Bible as S. Augus- lxxxvi., tine did, and taking the [lxxxvii., word Canonical in a large sense The canons of this Council were not confirmed by the xcvi. |