So the Council just ignored the ante-Nicene tradition of the church in making its decision??? It appears that the tradition of the ante-Nicene church was that of an Old Testament similar to the Jews who rejected of the OT deuteros. That explains Jerome's statement that the church [with a small "c"] does not recognize the deuteros.
That's not what the other Church Fathers said. In an earlier post, I quoted Origen who said that the ENTIRE Church included the Greek version of Daniel in their Scriptures. Jerome is not the Church - and I would like to point out that he did not rebel over the matter once the Church set the canon during his lifetime... And while a few of the Church Fathers had some questions about some of the OT writings in the Septaugint, they ultimately accepted the Jewish bible that was written in Greek as their Sacred Scriptures. This is evident even in the New Testament, where we find the writers quoting the GREEK rather than the Hebrew version of a passage over and over again.
Regards