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Alexandria made use of the same term to designate model authors,
making rules in literature; so that the ecclesiastical writers
early employed it to mean sometimes Christian doctrine, the rule of
our life; sometimes, the divine book, the only rule of our faith;
sometimes, in fine, the catalogue of the sacred books composing
this rule. This became at length its almost exclusive religious
meaning.1 SECTION II. THE NOTION OF A CANON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
TRACED TO THE DAYS OF THE APOSTLES. Before even consulting the
ecclesiastical historians on this subject, we may already
comprehend, from the nature of things, that the idea of a divine
collection of the writings of the New Testament, must have early
sprung up in all the communities of those who believed in Christ.
Is it not evident that it must have originated as soon as these
churches saw the men, " apostles and prophets," who announced to
them the gospel with the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven,8
beginning to write to them apostolical letters, or transmit to them
the history of the Saviour's life and teachings? In fact. they were
entirely prepared for it by having in their hands the Old
Testament. This collection, already 1 It should, however, be
remarked, to avoid all mistake in examining the writmgs of the
Fathers, that while they had a distinct 'and definite catalogue of
books, which they regarded as inspired, and as distinguished from
the apocrvphal or uninspired, but which were allowed to be read in
churches, yet they did not at first agree in their use of the term
canon. From a varied application of it to lists of clergymen, and
even of church furniture, it came in the fourth century to be
applied, as now, to the catalogue of Scriptures. But then it will
be found that some time elapsed before Jerome's us...
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