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Cajetan's view on the canon

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Did the famous Papal Legate, Cardinal Cajetan reject the catholic view of deuterocanonical books? > “Here we close our commentaries on the historical books of the Old > Testament. For the rest (that is, Judith, Tobit, and the books of > Maccabees) are counted by St Jerome out of the canonical books, and > are placed amongst the Apocrypha, along with Wisdom and > Ecclesiasticus, as is plain from the Prologus Galeatus. Nor be thou > disturbed, like a raw scholar, if thou shouldest find anywhere, either > in the sacred councils or the sacred doctors, these books reckoned as > canonical. For the words as well of councils as of doctors are to be > reduced to the correction of Jerome. Now, according to his judgment, > in the epistle to the bishops Chromatius and Heliodorus, these books > (and any other like books in the canon of the Bible) are not > canonical, that is, not in the nature of a rule for confirming matters > of faith. Yet, they may be called canonical, that is, in the nature of > a rule for the edification of the faithful, as being received and > authorised in the canon of the Bible for that purpose. By the help of > this distinction thou mayest see thy way clearly through that which > Augustine says, and what is written in the provincial council of > Carthage.” > > ~ Commentary on All the Authentic Historical Books of the Old > Testament (dedicated to Pope Clement VII )
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Jan 28, 2023, 05:36 PM
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