, 1880-10-24

| were disputed suO"s L414l III IuusE uAyS NE1
were accepted BY some Under the hcretfa
! head he Included the Gospel according to Rafr
| the Gospel according to Thomas. tho Iraditt1:
drew. and the acts OF John. Heel. Hist, iii..l
Athanas,ts t3o5 T. D.. prepared list whit
omitted Esther. OF the wisdom Of Solomon, III
! Of the Apostles, and the pus,ur Of Hcrmas. Ii
| said 1hey were nor canonical but were intende
by the Fathers as profitable reading Tor con
| canonicai: these are to he read. Lot there b.
Brit. = scanon."l Ho had become tired Of tn
canuot begin to give the reader all the list.
| and the controversy which prevailed in thos
! days as to what constituted tue canYn. It be
came evident to tho Fathers themselves tha
| they could not ugrcc. So councils began to b.
called The first one which declared what shoult
constitute tho canoutcai list was the Council o.
IHodiccsE 1t was not COUNCIL OF tho whole
Church, but only I'M nsscmblnge Of Il few clergy
from Lydia and PhrygiA. Tnirty-two person;
were present The date of the council was about
a5 4. D. How the vote stood on the books w
du not know. nor do We know how 1t stood II
scarcely any Of The councils. Us no records have
come to Us. ALI we know is the result, what
books they put In. and what they took out. The
decree Ut this council Was:
Psalms coml,used by private men must not be
only tho canonical books Of the Old and New
Testament What books must be reai:
Then follows the Old Testament list, the same
as We have it now except that it inserted Baruch
aud the Ep!stle Of Jeremiah. neither Of which
ure now in our 1i;bfe, and tho New Testament
LIST. Including Hebrews and the five Cutholic
Observe In the decree. fur the first Ime the tone
OF authority as 10 what constitutes the Bible,
Church ot1icin!s went III, making lists, however,
Gregory, Of kazianxus tSss A. d.. and Anphilo.
chlus $50 4. d.. did so omittIng Revelation
and the Epistle to the Hebrews. mud declaring
Chrysostom drew up q remarkable list tsynop-
sis Chrys0stnm vi. 3l41, in which he excluded
from , tho Q!d Testament l. Chronicles, Il. chron-
1sss E5ser zc2e GS aaa asa@ bane s5ea sa
frun the New Testament II. Peter. II. John.
III. John, james. Jude, and Revelation. Did
hereto, or liable to tiamnation because he did
not accept tho Bible us 2 whole or believe
that :, every word in tho Blessed Book wus in
Juni!itls au African Bishop of the sixth cent
ury, divided THO Olu Testament canon into tho
books Of perfect and the books Of - mean"
Icies. Ii. Chronicles, Job, Son9 Ut Solomon, and
Esther. tWesteott, Hist, New Test Cauou, ap-
Cosmos Iulicopleustee t55:355 A. d. excluded from
big list james Peter II. Petcr, john II. john
Iii. John, Jude, and Revelation. Cosmos was Il
scientist. Ia his day the Christians believed the
the turtle on tho buck Ut Ii snake, aud the
snnke on the back Of an elephant. They never
told US what 81 the elephant rested on. 1t is the
same now Ihcy tell us the universe was made
by God, but they never tell US who made God.
s. iuu must begin somewhere" they say. That
is what We say, but VIZ prefer To begin with
What we know exists, rather thin with some
thing that we hnve TO guess IT, That is tho only
there is between u.s.. In Cosmos time
there WIS theory, spreading rtply that the
world was round, und inhabited on the other
side St Augustine said that it could not be, for
hen tue people on the other side could NOT see
The Sou of I'd coming IN nil His glory on the Inst
great day. Luther sn,d later Of Copeluieus that
he was an "old foo,' and "trying to upset the
whole art Ut astronomy anu to prove it ho
quoted from the Bible It was to oppose ibis
rising Pagan belief thnt Cosmos wrote Il scicn-
raphy.' According to him, the true orthodox
theory was that the earth was Quadlau-
Eular plane. in length from easr to |
es' yet 4oo Gays 1 Journey, and III breadth from
closed by mountains, whose iufty peaks sup !
oorted the sky. On the north side there was a |
mountain larger than the rest, behind which tho |
un went, thus producing night Cosmos lived |
u Africa. where the sun Seems to Set far in tho
lorth} The plane Ut the earth was not e1nctly /
lorzontal bur inclined slightly from the nurth, |
or which reason the Euphtsltes, the Tigris, and !
'ther vt rivers running southwark were rapid, |
While the Nile, having to run up hill. was SLOW
III Gs9 A. d. the sixth general council of Con- !
m adopted three canoncal lists, no two
he other the Carthagin1An, and the third the
Apostolic. The second had been previously
dopted ut . council In Carthage, III Africa and
ne Apostolic vas one contained in book known
S tho Apostolic or Cle1ncutine Constitutions I
an only refer thus briefly to them, but the
eaaef 39 Who cares tn Investigate them further !
,ill ind them in Wcstcott's "History Of the
anon and in the Constitution" themselves.
'hich art IN the Public Libr71ry. Taking The
anon ms it is In the Bible tla. :ls tue stunlnrI
Or comparison, IIsn ths following !ablo shows how
ther The letters 'Om - mean 1hut tho book ,yas
nitted from the cauonica lat anl I'm means
aat it was inserted The render will observe