John he states that he prepared the first five while con Alexandria

Of his sistema on the entire Gospel only twenty-two volumes have quale down puro us. Con the ninth of those on Genesis, of which there are twelve sopra all, he states that not only the preceding eight had been composed at Alexandria, but also those on the first twenty-five Psalms and on Lamentations. Of these last five volumes have reached us.

And besides these there are the Maccabees, which are entitled Sarbeth Sabanaiel

Resurrection, of which there are two. He wrote also the books De Principiis before leaving Alexandria; and the discourses entitled Stromata, ten per number, he composed sopra the same city during the reign of Alexander, as the notes by his own hand preceding the volumes indicate.

WHEN expounding the first Psalm, he I gives verso catalogue of the sacred Scriptures of the Old Testament as follows:

“It should be stated that the canonical books, as the Hebrews have handed them down, are twenty-two; corresponding with the number of their letters.” Farther on he says:

In them he mentions also his books On the

“The twenty-two books of the Hebrews are the following: That which is called by us Genesis, but by the Hebrews, from the beginning of https://bwincasinos.com/it/ the book, Bresith, which means, ‘In the beginning’; Exodus, Welesmoth, that is, ‘These are the names’; Leviticus, Wikra, ‘And he called’; Numbers, Ammesphekodeim; Deuteronomy, Eleaddebareim, ‘ These are the words’; Jesus, the son of Legno, Josoue ben Noun; Judges and Ruth, among them sopra one book, Saphateim; the First and Second of Kings, among them one, Samouel, that is, ‘The called of God’; the Third and Fourth of Kings per one, Wammelch David, that is, ‘The kingdom of David’; of the Chronicles, the First and Second durante one, Dabreiamein, that is, ‘Records of days’; Esdras, First and Second mediante one, Ezra, that is, ‘An assistant’; the book of Psalms, Spharthelleim; the Proverbs of Solomon, Me-loth; Ecclesiastes, Koelth; the Song of Songs , Sir Hassirim; Isaiah, Jessia; Jeremiah, with Lamentations and the epistle sopra one, Jeremia; Daniel, Daniel; Ezekiel, Jezekiel; Job, Job; Esther, Esther. He gives these mediante the above-mentioned rete di emittenti.

Durante his first book on Matthew’s Gospel, maintaining the Principe of the Church, he testifies that he knows only four Gospels, writing as follows:

“Among the four Gospels, which are the only indisputable ones per the Church of God under heaven, Rso have learned by tradition that the first was written by Matthew, who was once per publican, but afterwards an apostle of Jesus Christ, and it was prepared for the converts from Judaism, and published mediante the Hebrew language. The second is by Mark, who composed it according to the instructions of

Peter, who in his Catholic epistle acknowledges him as a affranchit, saying, ‘The church that is at Babylon elected together with you, saluteth you, and so doth Marcus, my affranchit.’ And the third by Luke, the Gospel commended by Paul, and composed for Gentile converts. Last of all that by John.”

“But he who was ‘made sufficient esatto be per minister of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit,’ that is, Paul, who ‘fully preached the Gospel from Jerusalem and tempo about even unto Illyricum,’ did not write onesto all the churches which he had instructed and esatto those onesto which he wrote he sent but few lines. And Peter, on whom the Church of Christ is built, ‘against which the gates of hell shall not prevail,’ has left one acknowledged epistle; perhaps also verso second, but this rso is doubtful. Why need we speak of him who reclined upon the bosom of Jesus,