CHAPTER IV. WHEREIN THE ARGUMENT OF THE ADVERSARIES IS PROPOSED AND CONFUTED. Having now premised a brief explanation of these matters, we will come to the discussion of the cause and question proposed. And first, we shall have to treat of the six entire books, …
William Whitaker on the Canon – Part 1
THE FIRST CONTROVERSY. QUESTION I. CHAPTER I. WHEREIN THIS WHOLE CONTROVERSY IS DISTRIBUTED INTO ITS PARTICULAR QUESTIONS. We will lay the foundation of this controvery in those words of Christ which are to be found in the fifth chapter of St John’s Gospel at the …
William Whitaker on Augustine's View of the Apocrypha
We allow that the council of Carthage, and Gelasius with his seventy bishops, and Innocent, and Augustine, and Isidore call these books canonical. But the question is, in what sense they called them canonical. Now, we deny that their meaning was to make these books, …