Recapitulation of All the Volumes of Both Testaments

THIS FIRST BOOK being finished — which we took upon ourselves to write concerning the divine volumes, or concerning the scriptures and the holy writers — we at length exhibit to thee three Partitions of all the scriptures of both testaments and of both orders: the first, that of the divine Augustine; the second, that of the recent scholastics; but the third, that which is our own.

THE FIRST PARTITION OF THE BOOKS OF THE DIVINE SCRIPTURE

THE FIRST PARTITION of the books of the divine scripture — pertaining as well to the first as to the second order of the sacred canon — was dissected by the divine Augustine, in the second book Of Christian doctrine, into two sections: the one of the old, the other of the new testament. Of which the former contains the four-and-forty old books, distinguished into two classes, that is, the Historical and the Prophetical; the latter contains the eight books of the new testament.

OF THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT — SECTIO PRIMA

Historical books, XXII.		Prophetical — that is, of those who are properly called Prophets — books XXII.
1	Genesis	23	David
2	Exodus	24	Proverbia
3	Leviticus	25	Ecclesiastes
4	Numeri	26	Cantica
5	Deuteronomion	27	Sapientia
6	Josue	28	Ecclesiasticus
7	Judicum	29	Esaias
8	Ruth	30	Hieremias with the Threni
9	Regum primus [1 Kings]	31	Ezechiel
10	Regum secundus	32	Daniel
11	Regum tertius	33	Osee
12	Regum quartus	34	Joël
13	Paralipomenon primus	35	Amos
14	Paralipomenon secundus	36	Abdias
15	Job	37	Jonas
16	Tobias	38	Michaeas
17	Esther	39	Nahum
18	Judith	40	Abacuch
19	Esdrae primus	41	Sophonias
20	Esdrae secundus	42	Aggaeus
21	Maccabaeorum primus	43	Zacharias
22	Maccabaeorum secundus	44	Malachias

OF THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT — SECTIO SECVNDA

OF THE GOSPELS — of Matthaeus, Marcus, Lucas, and Joannes — four books. OF THE EPISTLES of Paul, fourteen: one book. OF THE APOSTOLIC ACTS: one book. OF THE CATHOLIC epistles — that is, II of Peter, III of Joannes, I of Jacobus, and I of Jude: one book. OF THE APOCALYPSE of Joannes the Evangelist: one book.

WHICH BOOKS indeed of the new Testament — the volume of the Apocalypse being omitted — Gregorius the Theologian [Gregory Nazianzen], some years before Augustine, in the same place which we cited above, sang not inelegantly in these verses:

ἤδη ἀρίθμει καὶ νέου μυστηρίου. Ματθαῖος μὲν ἔγραψεν ἑβραίοις θαύματα χριστοῦ. Μάρκος δ’ ἰταλίῃ. λουκᾶς ἀχαΐαδι. Πᾶσι δ’ ἰωάννης, κήρυξ μέγας, οὐρανοφοίτης. ἔπειτα πράξεις τῶν σοφῶν ἀποστόλων. Δέκα δὲ παύλου τέσσαρές τ’ ἐπιστολαί. ἑπτάδε καθολικαὶ, ὧν ἰακώβου μία. [the word ἰακώβου is printed in a heavily ligatured, compressed form] Δύω δὲ πέτρου, τρεῖς δ’ ἰωάννου πάλιν.

[That is: Now number also (the books) of the new mystery. Matthaeus wrote for the Hebrews the miracles of Christ; Marcus for Italy; Lucas for Achaia; but Joannes, the great herald, the heaven-walker, for all. Then the Acts of the wise apostles; and ten and four epistles of Paul; and seven catholic, of which one is of Jacobus, two of Peter, and three again of Joannes…]

Ἰούδα δέ ἐστιν ἑβδόμη. πάσας ἔχεις. Εἴ τι δὲ τούτων ἐκτὸς, οὐκ ἐν γνησίοις.

which may be turned thus:

Now indeed run through the mysteries of the new law. Matthaeus gave to the Hebrews the miracles of Christ; Marcus wrote for Italy; for thee, Graecia, Lucas: heaven-wandering Joannes scattered his writings for all [Caeliuagus — the italic type could also be read Calinagus; caelivagus, “sky-wandering,” renders the Greek οὐρανοφοίτης]. Joined to these, thou shalt presently discern the famous apostolic deeds. Next number the twice-seven little books of Paul; the seven Catholic [epistles], among which the first is of Jacobus, and the twin ones of Peter: then follow the three of Joannes; seventh after these succeeds the epistle of Jude. They will hardly be legitimate, if any writings be carried about outside these.

THE SECOND PARTITION OF ALL THE BOOKS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE

THE SECOND PARTITION of all the books of holy Scripture — pertaining as well to the first as to the second order of the sacred canon — was distinguished by the scholastics into two Sections: the one of the old, the other of the new testament; of which each is digested into four classes of volumes, that is, into the Legal, Historial, Sapiential, and Prophetal books.

OF THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT — SECTIO PRIMA

Legal books, five.		Sapiential books, five.
1	Genesis	23	Proverbia
2	Exodus	24	Ecclesiastes
3	Leviticus	25	Cantica
4	Numeri	26	Sapientia
5	Deuteronomion	27	Ecclesiasticus
Historial books, XVII.		Prophetal books, XVII.
6	Josue	28	David
7	Judicum	29	Esaias
8	Ruth	30	Hieremias with the Threni, & Baruch
9	Regum primus	31	Ezechiel
10	Regum secundus	32	Daniel
11	Regum tertius	33	Oseas
12	Regum quartus	34	Joël
13	Paralipomenon primus	35	Amos
14	Paralipomenon secundus	36	Abdias
15	Esdras primus	37	Jonas
16	Esdras secundus	38	Michaeas
17	Tobias	39	Nahum
18	Judith	40	Abacuch
19	Esther	41	Sophonias
20	Job	42	Aggaeus
21	Maccabaeorum primus	43	Zacharias
22	Maccabaeorum secundus	44	Malachias

THE SECOND SECTION, OF ALL THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, digested into the same four Classes

LEGAL, FOUR BOOKS; that is: Matthaeus, Marcus, Lucas, Joannes.

HISTORIAL, ONE BOOK; that is: The Acts of the Apostles.

SAPIENTIAL, TWO BOOKS; that is: The fourteen epistles of Paul the Apostle, The seven Catholic epistles.

PROPHETAL, ONE BOOK; that is: The Apocalypse of Joannes.

## THE THIRD PARTITION — ΒΙΒΛΙΟΓΡΑΦΩΝ (PARTITIO TERTIA ΒΙΒΛΙΟΓΡΑΦΩΝ)

That is, of the biblical scriptures, distributed by us into three Sections: of which the first contains the Πρωτοκανονικὰ, that is, the canonical writings of the first order; the second the Δευτεροκανονικὰ, that is, the canonical scriptures of the second order; the third the Ἀπόκρυφα, or all the additions of scriptures of uncertain authority.

ΠΡΩΤΟΚΑΝΟΝΙΚΩΝ — THAT IS, OF THE CANONICAL SCRIPTURES OF THE FIRST ORDER. SECTIO PRIMA. (ΠΡΩΤΟΚΑΝΟΝΙΚΩΝ, ID EST, SCRIPTVRARVM CANONICARVM PRIMI ORDINIS. SECTIO PRIMA.)

FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.		FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT.
1	Genesis.	1	Matthaeus.
2	Exodus.	2	Marcus.
3	Leviticus.	3	Lucas.
4	Numeri.	4	Joannes.
5	Deuteronomion.	5	The Acts of the Apostles.
6	Josue.	6	To the Romans.
7	Judicum, & Ruth.	7	To the Corinthians, the first.
8	Samuelis, first & second.	8	To the Corinthians, the second.
9	Melachim [Kings], first & second.	9	To the Galatians.
10	The two books of Paralipomenon.	10	To the Ephesians.
11	The two books of Esdras.	11	To the Philippians.
12	Job.	12	To the Colossians.
13	Psalterium.	13	To the Thessalonians, the first.
14	Proverbia.	14	To the Thessalonians, the second.
15	Ecclesiastes.	15	To Timothy, the first.
16	Cantica.	16	To Timothy, the second.
17	Esaias.	17	To Titus.
18	Jeremias with the Threni.	18	To Philemon.
19	Ezechiel.	19	The first epistle of Peter.
20	Daniel.	20	The first epistle of Joannes.
21	The twelve Prophets.

ΔΕΥΤΕΡΟΚΑΝΟΝΙΚΩΝ — THAT IS, OF THE CANONICAL SCRIPTURES OF THE SECOND ORDER. SECTIO SECVNDA. (ΔΕΥΤΕΡΟΚΑΝΟΝΙΚΩΝ, ID EST, CANONICARVM secundi ordinis scripturarum. SECTIO SECVNDA.)

FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.		FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT.
1	Esther.	1	The last chapter of Marcus.
2	Tobias.	2	The history of the agony of Christ, & of the Angel’s consolation.
3	Judith.	3	The history of Joannes concerning the adulterous woman.
4	Baruch.	4	The epistle to the Hebrews.
5	The epistle of Hieremias.	5	The epistle of Jacobus.
6	Sapientia.	6	The second epistle of Peter.
7	Ecclesiasticus.	7	The second epistle of Joannes.
8	The Addition of Daniel, i.e. {the Prayer of Azarias; the Hymn of the three boys; the history of Susanna; the history of Bel} [printed as a bracketed cluster beside the entry]	8	The third epistle of Joannes.
9	Maccabaeorum, the first.	9	The epistle of Jude.
10	Maccabaeorum, the second.	10	The Apocalypse.

ΑΠΟΚΡΥΦΩΝ — THAT IS, OF SCRIPTURES OF A HIDDEN AND UNCERTAIN KIND. SECTIO TERTIA. (ΑΠΟΚΡΥΦΩΝ, HOC EST, OCCVLTI ET INCERTI generis scripturarum. SECTIO TERTIA.)


1	The appendix of the second book of Paralipomenon.
2	The third book of Esdras.
3	The fourth book of Esdras.
4	The appendix of the book of Esther.
5	The accession of the book of Job.
6	The appendix of the Psalter.
7	The preface of the Lamentations.
8	The appendix of Ecclesiasticus.
9	Maccabaeorum, the third.
10	Maccabaeorum, the fourth.

THESE THINGS, in sum, we have had to say concerning the holy scriptures comprehended in the vulgate codex of the Bibles; hereafter, in the following book, we shall narrate the writers and writings which are cited by the divine authors of the sacred volumes — concerning which Origen, in the first homily on the Canticle of Canticles, writes thus: IT IS LABORIOUS, if we should wish to inquire how great a commemoration of many books is made in the divine scriptures, of which no reading at all has been handed down to you; nay, not even among the Jews have we found the use of readings of this kind. Which [books] — whether because they contained some things above human intelligence, it pleased the holy spirit to take them out of the midst; or because they were of those scriptures which are called Apocrypha, inasmuch as many things are found in them corrupted, and handed down by the elders against the true faith — it did not please them that place be given them, nor that they be admitted to authority. It is above us to pronounce concerning such things. Yet this is manifest: that many examples have been brought forth, whether by the Apostles or by the Evangelists, and inserted into the new testament, which we never read in these scriptures which we hold canonical; yet they are found in the Apocrypha, and are evidently shown to have been taken up out of them. Thus far the words of Origen; with which it is fitting to set an end to the present book.

THE END OF THE FIRST BOOK