Of the approximately 300 Old Testament quotes in the New Testament, approximately 2/3 of them came from the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament) which included the deuterocanonical books that the Protestants later removed. This is additional evidence that Jesus and the apostles viewed the deuterocanonical books as part of canon of the […]
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Chrysostom on Scripture
“Let them hear, as many of us as neglect the reading of the Scriptures, to what harm we are subjecting ourselves, to what poverty.” (Hom. XLVII On Matthew) The Scriptures help us to obtain our salvation. “Now if we are willing to examine the Scriptures in this way, carefully and systematically, we shall be able […]
On the Primacy of Scripture
IRENAEUS OF LYONS (130-202) We have known the method of our salvation by no other means than those by whom the gospel came to us; which gospel they truly preached; but afterward, by the will of God, they delivered to us in the Scriptures, to be for the future the foundation and pillar of our […]
Chrysostom on the Perfection of Scripture
2Ti 3:13-17 LEB But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived. (14) But you continue in the things which you have learned and are convinced of, because you know from whom you learned them, (15) and that from childhood you have known the holy writings that are able to […]