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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