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1/ Brushing up on my 16th-century Old Testament canonical history this morning. Here's a bit from Cardinal Cajetan (Tomasso De Vio):
"And in this place, we conclude the commentaries of the Historical books of the Old Testament,...
"And in this place, we conclude the commentaries of the Historical books of the Old Testament,...
2/ ...for clearly the remaining books (Judith, Tobit, and the books of Maccabees) were reckoned by St Jerome as outside of the canonical books and are placed among the apocrypha along with the book of Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus as is plain in the Prologus Galeatus.
3/ Nor should you, novice, be disturbed if you occasionally crawl to discover that those books are counted among the canonical books either in the holy Councils or in the holy Doctors....
4/ For the language of Councils and Doctors alike shall be restored according to the judgement of Jerome, and according to his opinion written to bishops Chromatius and Heliodorus, those books (and if there be any similar to them in the canon of the Bible) are not canonical;...
5/ that is, they are not normative for establishing points of faith. However, they are able to be called canonical (that is normative) for the edification of the faithful, as able to be received and authenticated/secured in the canon of the Bible according to this....
6/ For with this distinction, you will be able to discern what is said in Augustine in second book of On Christian Teaching, written in the Council of Florence under Eugenius IV, written in the regional Councils of Carthage and Laodicea, and by Popes Innocent and Galasius."
7/ From the conclusion to his Commentaries on the Historical Books of the Old Testament which he concluded after commenting on Esther.
