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Jerome Regarding the Septuagint
I recently happened to stumble across this interesting translation of Jerome’s Prologue to Chronicles (link). Jerome makes a number of interesting comments about the Septuagint: 1) Jerome begins by noting that the Septuagint is not a pure translation: If the version of the Seventy translators is pure and has remained as it was rendered by…
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Rufinus on the Creed, the Canon, and the Church
Further to my previous post (link), it is probably worthwhile providing a much longer extract from Rufinus with respect to his discussion of the Creed (capitals are found in the translation from which this is taken, and seems to indicate where Rufinus is quoting the creed): 35. Let this be enough on this subject. Next…
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Did Hippo, Carthage, or Rome’s Bishop Settle the Canon?
Some Roman Catholics are under the false impression that the councils of Hippo (A.D. 393) and/or Carthage (A.D. 397) authoritatively settled the canon of Scripture for the church – either directly or by endorsement by one or more Roman bishops. To be deep in history, however, is to cease to be so naive. John of…
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Augustine Distinguishing All in Adam from All in Christ
I came across the following quotation and thought I’d share it: Since you do not wish to understand the “many” he said later as meaning the “all” he said first, you declare he said “many” to keep us from thinking he meant “all”. You could do likewise about the seed of Abraham to whom all…
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Albrecht vs Cajetan – Round 2
The video embedded below is a further response to William Albrechts (aka GNRHead) (link to Albrecht’s video) on the issue of Cardinal Cajetan and the Canon. In this video: 1. We deal with the fact that “Cajetan” is pronounced in modern English with the “j” making a “j” sound when it comes from a Latin…
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Recommended Reading – Jason Engwer – New Testament Canon
I heartily recommend for your reading edification a series of posts by Jason Engwer of Triablogue on the topic of the New Testament Canon. They are well-researched and well-written. If it is a topic that is of interest to you, I hope you will check out the series (link to index post for series). -TurretinFan…
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Cajetan and the Canon
Response to Mr. William Albrecht regarding Cajetan and the Canon. Cajetan was a Roman Catholic cardinal who opposed Luther as an official representative of Rome, but who also held to the same canon as “Protestants” do today. This clip discusses that issue as well as a few related issues. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p648Ee6dCbw&hl=en&fs=1] -TurretinFan To God be the…
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Response to Nick Regarding Spiral Argument and Private Judgment
Nick has provided a response to my rebuttal of Karl Keating’s “Spiral Argument” (link). Nick wrote: “I think you should distinguish between private judgment and a circular argument. Each of those terms correspond to different issues.” That’s true. They do often correspond to different issues. The come together, however, because the spiral argument employs private…
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An Inconvenient Conciliar Truth – Part 13
An Inconvenient Conciliar Truth – Part 13 Some folks seem to find relying on councils a comfort. For these folks, there are some inconvenient facts that they must face. This post is the thirteenth in what has become a multi-part series. Council of Jamnia (90) – 1st Century Council Rejects Apocrypha The council of Jamnia…
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Psalm 151
Thomas Hartwell Horne, in his “Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures,” remarks: The number of the canonical psalms is one hundred and fifty: but in the Septuagint version, as well as in the Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic translations, there is extant another, which is numbered CLI. Its subject is the…