(m) St. Basil sufficiently observes, that he did not own the Books of Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus for Canonical.] In his Epist. 406. to Amphilochius, he tells us, that Philo speaking of the Manna, has said according to the Tradition of the Jews, that it had a different Taste according to the diffe∣rence of Palats or Appetites. Now this is expresly said in the Book of Wisdom. St. Basil therefore believed it was written by Philo, if this is the Book whereof he speaks, or at least that it was no Book of Scripture, for otherwise he would not barely have called an Opinion, that is so clearly esta∣blished there in the 16th Chapter, by the Name of a Jewish Tradition. The same St. Basil, Lib. 2. contr. Eunom. says, that this passage, Dominus creavit me initium viarum suarum, is only to be found once in Scripture. Socrates says the same thing, Lib. 4. Chap. 7. If they had acknowledg∣ed the Book of Wisdom to be Canonical, they ought to have said that this Sentence is twice to be found in the Bible, because we read it in the Book of Wisdom, as well as in the Proverbs.
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.
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