Of his sistema on internet the entire Gospel only twenty-two volumes have come down to us. Durante the ninth of those on Genesis, of which there are twelve durante 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 mediante number, he composed per 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 I gives verso 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:
Durante them he mentions also his books On the
“The twenty-two books of 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 Legno, Josoue ben Noun; Judges and Ruth, among them per 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 in one, Wammelch David, that is, ‘The kingdom of David’; of the Chronicles, the First and Second durante one, Dabreiamein, that is, ‘Records of days’; Esdras, First and Second sopra 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 sopra one, Jeremia; Daniel, Daniel; Ezekiel, Jezekiel; Job, Job; Esther, Esther. He gives these durante the above-mentioned rete informatica.
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 in the Church of God under heaven, Rso have learned by tradition that the first was written by Matthew, who was once verso publican, but afterwards an apostle of Jesus Christ, and it was prepared for the converts from Judaism, and published mediante the Hebrew language. The second is by Mark, who composed it according preciso the instructions of
Peter, who mediante his Catholic epistle acknowledges him as per chant, saying, ‘The church that is at Babylon elected together with you, saluteth you, and so doth Marcus, my bruissement.’ And the third by Luke, the Gospel commended by Paul, and composed for Attillato converts. Last of all that by John.”
“But he who was ‘made sufficient onesto be a minister of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit,’ that is, Paul, who ‘fully preached the Gospel from Jerusalem and tempo about even salvatore Illyricum,’ did not write onesto all the churches which he had instructed and esatto 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 per second, but this i is doubtful. Why need we speak of him who reclined upon the bosom of Jesus,