The Canon of the New Testament How And When Formed
The Canon of the New Testament How And When Formed
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
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68, speaks of Paul's numerous letters not in contrast with the Scriptures, but as among the Scriptures and in contrast with ** the olher Scriptures " (2 Pet. 3 : 16) — that is, of course, those of the Old Testament. In like manner the apostle Paul com- bines, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, the book of Deuteronomy and the Gospel of Luke under the common head of ''Scripture" (i Tim. 5 : 18): " For the Scripture saith. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn ...[Deut. 25 : 4;] and, The laborer is worthy of his hire ' " (Luke 10 : 7). The line of such quotations is 6 FORMATION OF N. T. CANON. never broken in Christian literature. Polycarp (c. 12) in A. D. 115 unites the Psalms and Ephesians in ex- actly similar manner: ^'In the sacred books, . As it is said in these Scriptures, ' Be ye angry and sin not, ' and 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. ' " So, a few years later, the so-called second letter of Clement, after quoting Isaiah, adds (2 : 4) : *' And another Scripture, however, says, ' I came not to call the righteous, but sinners'" — quoting from Matthew, a book which Barnabas {circa 97-106 A.
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