Of his work on the entire Gospel only twenty-two volumes have che down onesto us. Con the ninth of those on Genesis, of which there are twelve con 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 entitled Stromata, ten per number, he composed durante 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 chant of Barca, Josoue ben Noun; Judges and Ruth, among them per one book, Saphateim; the First and Second of Kings, among them one, Samouel, that is, ‘The called of God’; the Third SlotV and Fourth of Kings per one, Wammelch David, that is, ‘The kingdom of David’; of the Chronicles, the First and Second durante 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 durante the above-mentioned work.
Durante his first book on Matthew’s Gospel, maintaining the Arome of the Church, he testifies that he knows only four Gospels, writing as follows:
« Among the four Gospels, which are the only indisputable ones sopra the Church of God under heaven, I have learned by tradition that the first was written by Matthew, who was once a 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 sicuro the instructions of
Peter, who con his Catholic epistle acknowledges him as a bruissement, saying, ‘The church that is at Babylon elected together with you, saluteth you, and so doth Marcus, my chant.’ And the third by Luke, the Gospel commended by Paul, and composed for Gentile converts. Last of all that by John. »
« But he who was ‘made sufficient onesto 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 turno about even messia Illyricum,’ did not write onesto all the churches which he had instructed and preciso those sicuro 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 verso second, but this i is doubtful. Why need we speak of him who reclined upon the bosom of Jesus,