Of his rete informatica on the entire Gospel only twenty-two volumes have come down to us. Per the ninth of those on Genesis, of which there are twelve per 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 sopra number, he composed sopra the same city during the reign of Alexander, as the libretto by his own hand preceding the volumes indicate.
WHEN expounding the first Psalm, he Rso gives a 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:
Sopra them he mentions also his books On the
“The twenty-two books of casinò online pribet the Hebrews are the following: That which is called by us Genesis, but by the Hebrews, from the beginning of 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 Barca, Josoue ben Noun; Judges and Ruth, among them mediante 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 durante one, Wammelch David, that is, ‘The kingdom of David’; of the Chronicles, the First and Second mediante 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 durante one, Jeremia; Daniel, Daniel; Ezekiel, Jezekiel; Job, Job; Esther, Esther. He gives these per the above-mentioned work.
Sopra his first book on Matthew’s Gospel, maintaining the Canon of the Church, he testifies that he knows only four Gospels, writing as follows:
“Among the four Gospels, which are the only indisputable ones sopra the Church of God under heaven, I have learned by tradition that the first was written by Matthew, who was once a publican, but afterwards an apostle of Jesus Christ, and it was prepared for the converts from Judaism, and published sopra the Hebrew language. The second is by Mark, who composed it according preciso the instructions of
Peter, who in his Catholic epistle acknowledges him as verso son, saying, ‘The church that is at Babylon elected together with you, saluteth you, and so doth Marcus, my chant.’ 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 sicuro be verso minister of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit,’ that is, Paul, who ‘fully preached the Gospel from Jerusalem and ripresa about even messia Illyricum,’ did not write esatto all the churches which he had instructed and sicuro those sicuro 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 a second, but this rso is doubtful. Why need we speak of him who reclined upon the bosom of Jesus,