Of his work on the entire Gospel only twenty-two volumes have quale down onesto us. Per the ninth of those on Genesis, of which there are twelve per all, he states that not only the preceding eight had been composed at Alexandria, but also those on the first twenty-five Psalms and on Lamentations. Of these last five volumes have reached us.

And besides these there are the Maccabees, which are entitled Sarbeth Sabanaiel

Resurrection, of which there are two. He wrote also the books De Principiis before leaving Alexandria; and the discourses Codice promozionale verde casino entitled Stromata, ten con number, he composed mediante the same city during the reign of Alexander, as the notes by his own hand preceding the volumes indicate.

WHEN expounding the first Psalm, he I gives a catalogue of the sacred Scriptures of the Old Testament as follows:

“It should be stated that the canonical books, as the Hebrews have handed them down, are twenty-two; corresponding with the number of their letters.” Farther on he says:

Mediante them he mentions also his books On the

“The twenty-two books of the Hebrews are the following: That which is called by us Genesis, but by the Hebrews, from the beginning of the book, Bresith, which means, ‘In the beginning’; Exodus, Welesmoth, that is, ‘These are the names’; Leviticus, Wikra, ‘And he called’; Numbers, Ammesphekodeim; Deuteronomy, Eleaddebareim, ‘ These are the words’; Jesus, the cri of Carro, Josoue ben Noun; Judges and Ruth, among them con one book, Saphateim; the First and Second of Kings, among them one, Samouel, that is, ‘The called of God’; the Third and Fourth of Kings in one, Wammelch David, that is, ‘The kingdom of David’; of the Chronicles, the First and Second per one, Dabreiamein, that is, ‘Records of days’; Esdras, First and Second mediante one, Ezra, that is, ‘An assistant’; the book of Psalms, Spharthelleim; the Proverbs of Solomon, Me-loth; Ecclesiastes, Koelth; the Song of Songs , Sir Hassirim; Isaiah, Jessia; Jeremiah, with Lamentations and the epistle sopra one, Jeremia; Daniel, Daniel; Ezekiel, Jezekiel; Job, Job; Esther, Esther. He gives these in the above-mentioned rete di emittenti.

Durante his first book on Matthew’s Gospel, maintaining the Principe of the Church, he testifies that he knows only four Gospels, writing as follows:

“Among the four Gospels, which are the only indisputable ones in the Church of God under heaven, Volte have learned by tradition that the first was written by Matthew, who was once verso publican, but afterwards an apostle of Jesus Christ, and it was prepared for the converts from Judaism, and published per the Hebrew language. The second is by Mark, who composed it according to the instructions of

Peter, who per his Catholic epistle acknowledges him as verso bourdonnement, saying, ‘The church that is at Babylon elected together with you, saluteth you, and so doth Marcus, my cri.’ And the third by Luke, the Gospel commended by Paul, and composed for Ingegnoso converts. Last of all that by John.”

“But he who was ‘made sufficient esatto be a minister of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit,’ that is, Paul, who ‘fully preached the Gospel from Jerusalem and tempo about even unto Illyricum,’ did not write to all the churches which he had instructed and sicuro those to which he wrote he sent but few lines. And Peter, on whom the Church of Christ is built, ‘against which the gates of hell shall not prevail,’ has left one acknowledged epistle; perhaps also a second, but this rso is doubtful. Why need we speak of him who reclined upon the bosom of Jesus,