>>19369906Is it possible for a Groyper E-Catholic to talk about the Bible without looking like an idiot or a heretic? You can't even properly interpret Genesis and yet you want to be Lord of Maccabees, Tobit, etc.
>"...But let not extraneous books seduce your mind (for many malignant writings have been disseminated). Accept, o friend, this, my approved number. These are all twelve of the historical books of the most ancient Hebrew wisdom: First is Genesis, then Exodus, Leviticus too. Then Numbers, and the Second Law [Deuteronomy]. Then Joshua, and Judges. Ruth is eighth. The ninth and tenth books [are] the Acts of Kings, and [the eleventh is] Chronicles. Last you have Ezra. The poetic books are five: Job being first, then [the Psalms of] David; and three of Solomon, Ecclesiastes, Canticles and Proverbs. And similarly five of prophetic inspiration. There are the Twelve written in one book: Hosea and Amos, and Micah the third; then Joel, and Jonah, Obadiah, Nahum also, and Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, Haggai, then Zechariah, and Malachi. All these are one. The second is of Isaiah. Then the one called as an infant, Jeremiah, Then Ezekiel, and the gift of Daniel. I count therefore, twenty-two of the ancient books, corresponding to the number of the Hebrew letters.">St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Migne'sPatrologia Graeca, vol. 37 cols. 471-474 (Carmina Dogmatica, Book I, Section I, Carmen XII.). 