“How do you explain away Ignatius”
So, please give me the canon according to Ignatius.
“How do you explain away Irenaeus, who spoke of the 4 Gospels and quoted from *almost* every book in the New Testament?”
You’ve got me there! *almost*!= All. Thanks for confirming my point.
“You’ve got me there! *almost*!= All. Thanks for confirming my point.”
And what, exactly, is your point? That we needed the Roman Catholic church to confirm that Jude is scripture, because Irenaeus never had a purpose for quoting it? Or, perhaps, that the epistle to the Hebrews is scripture, since Rome denied that it was scripture in the 4th century, contrary to Jerome’s observation that it was anciently employed within the Christian church?
I will have to stick with Jerome and the early Christian writers over you. Sorry.