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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

“Rome denied that it was scripture in the 4th century”

Ooh. That’s gonna take a [[citation needed]].

“And what, exactly, is your point?”

The point is that Origen’s list differs from the modern canon, and his wasn’t the only one. While again there was substantial overlap but they did differ.


211 posted on 07/14/2013 5:18:55 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge ("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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To: JCBreckenridge

“Ooh. That’s gonna take a [[citation needed]].”


Already posted.

“The point is that Origen’s list differs from the modern canon,”


No he doesn’t, he gives the same canon of the New Testament we have today!

“So too our Lord, whose advent was typified by the son of Nun, when he came sent his apostles as priests bearing well-wrought trumpets. Matthew first sounded the priestly trumpet in his Gospel. Mark also, Luke and John, each gave forth a strain on their priestly trumpets. Peter moreover sounds loudly on the twofold trumpet of his epistles; and so also James and Jude. Still the number is incomplete, and John gives forth the trumpet-sound in his epistles and Apocalypse; 4 and Luke while describing the acts of the apostles. Lastly however came he who said, I think that God hath set forth us Apostles last of all, [1 Cor. 4:9] and thundering on the fourteen trumpets of his epistles threw down even to the ground the walls of Jericho, that is to say all the instruments of idolatry and the doctrines of philosophers.” (Origen’s Homilies on Joshua, viii. 1.)


228 posted on 07/14/2013 5:31:38 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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