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To: Petrosius
Innocent I left out Hebrews.

F.F Bruce, The Canon of Scripture, p234.

If you're going to appeal to the various Councils for the canon you're about to wipe out a great deal of Roman Catholic mariology.

IF you accept these Councils that is.

79 posted on 07/23/2019 1:38:34 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone
Innocent I left out Hebrews.

Not so fast. Although the manuscript tradition is uncertain, the generally accepted reading is that he listed the 14 letters of Paul, thus including Hebrews. In any case, there is still the 1000 year history before Trent of the general acceptance of the canon listed by Pope Damasus and the North African councils, including Hebrews. At best you can say that there was no solemn proclamation of this until the Council of Trent. But even here you would be wrong because there was one at the Council of Florence. And if we are to be limited to formal definitions, do we then say that Christians did not definitively hold that Jesus is the uncreated Son of God before the Council of Nicea?

Furthermore, if you are to say that the Catholic Church did not define the canon until the Council of Trent, then you must also hold that there was no firm canon of the Bible for any Christians before the 16th century. Thus my original point stands, that for the early Christians "sola Scriptura" could not work because there was no way to be certain what was Scripture in the first place.

93 posted on 07/23/2019 2:53:22 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: ealgeone
Innocent I left out Hebrews.

F.F Bruce, The Canon of Scripture, p234.


According to Frederick Fyvie Bruce (1910-1990) ?

However, Innocent, Bishop of Rome' letter to Exsuperius (S.D. 405) tells a different tale.

"Epistles of the apostle Paul fourteen."

"F.F. Bruce prefers "thirteen" here, which implies the omission of Hebrews. He states that "the three best" copies of the letter "reckon Paul's epistles as thirteen (written xiii), but the rest reckon them as fourteen (written xiiii)." (Canon of Scripture, p. 234.) But it is not at all probable that Hebrews would have been deliberately omitted from the list by a Roman bishop in the year 405, and the variation between xiiii and xiii is easily explained by scribal error."
96 posted on 07/23/2019 3:09:03 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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