A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

(k) St. Jerome, who frequently rejects it as A∣pocryphal, and puts it out of the Canon, not only of the Jews, but the Christians also.] Every time that St. Jerome treats expresly obout the Canoni∣cal Books in his Prologues to the Kings, to the Books of Salmon, Ezrah, and Esther, in his E∣pistles 7 and 103 to Paulinus, in his Commenta∣ry upon Ezekiel in l. 17. ch. 43. he always re∣jects those Books that are not to be found in the Canon of the Hebrews as Apocryphal, and only fit to be considered as such. But when he speaks without making any manner of reflection, he frequently cites these very Books as parts of the Holy Scripture, and attributes the same Chara∣cter to the Book of the Wisdom of Salomon, al∣though it is certain, that he believed the contra∣ry. In his Prefaces before Judith and Tobit, as if he had a mind to restore the Reputation of these Books, he speaks very advantageously of them.