...Eccl. 1.3. c. i6. i Epist. Paschal. ' Id. 1. 4. c. 23. m Exposit. in Symbol. Apost. §. 36. he reckons the Wisdom of Solomon, and the Wisdom of the Son of Sirach, (which on this very account had its title of Ecclesiasticus,) Tobit, Judith, Maccabees, the Shepherd...

...regard to what is printed; but they have omitted these seven holy and divine books; viz. Tobit, Judith, the Wisdom of Solomon, and the Wisdom of the son of Sirach, and Baruch that is united with Jeremiah, and the two books of the Maccabees; although these books omitted...

...particular authors, but never acknowledges any of them as a part of the canonical Scriptures. He declares that the authors of those books which bear the names...Solomon, and the Wisdom of the Son of Sirach, are wri- t ters contradicted, or not allowed, in the canon. When V Porphyry adduced some objections against...

...books of the Old Testament, as held by the Jews. But of the Apocryphal books he mentions none , except the Wisdom of Solomon, and the Wisdom of the Son of Sirach, concerning which he says, that " however useful and profitable they may be, they are not to be reckoned...

...speaks of Nature as of Wisdom, and of Providence ; and just such, also, is the language of the books of the Wisdom of Solomon, and the Wisdom of the son of Sirach ; and all the three, at the same time, by Nature, and by Wisdom, and by Providence, mean GOD. ' Wisdom'...

...speaks of Nature as of Wisdom, and of Providence ; and just such, also, is the language of the books of the Wisdom of Solomon, and the Wisdom of the son of Sirach ; and all the three, at the same time, by Nature, and by Wisdom, and by Providence, mean GOD. ' Wisdom'...

...Eusebius (who was the chiefest raetroC'NT-1V politan of all the Churches in Palestine, and the eldest of all the ecclesiastical writers in this fourth century)...severeth the Maccabees from the other divine books of Scripture11, and placeth them among the writings of Josephus and Julius the African; adding moreover,...

...Tobit, Judith, Baruch, and the Maccabees, he maketh here no mention at all, nor any where else besides. Of the Wisdom of Solomon, and the Wisdom of the son of Sirach, he declareth expressly, not only that they be both "doubtful writings"," but that theyb are "not to...

...particular authors, but never acknowledges any of them as a part of the canonical Scriptures. He declares that the authors of those books which bear the names...writers contradicted or not allowed in the canon. When Porphyry adduced some objections against him from the new pieces annexed to the book of Daniel,...

...besides these, other books that were called by the ancients not canonical, but ecclesiastical. Such are the Wisdom of Solomon, and the Wisdom of the Son of Sirach .... the book of Tobit, that of Judith, and the books of the Maccabees." Our next authority is Augustine,...