Preface and Catalogue of the Heresies — The Defense of the Old Testament

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Of Friar Sixtus of Siena, of the Order of Preachers: On those who have assailed the volumes of the Old Testament, or, Against the destroyers of the old Scripture (De his qui veteris testamenti volumina oppugnarunt, sive adversus veteris scripturae destructores) — the Eighth Book of the Bibliotheca Sancta

PRAEFATIO [Preface]

We demolished (Destruximus) in the preceding, seventh volume all the heresies which, from these times down [to our own], have arisen against the evangelical and apostolic scriptures of the New Testament: now, the order of disputation leading on, we subjoin to this work the Eighth and last book, pursuing in it the exposition and confutation of those heresies which, at various times, divers heretics stirred up against the Mosaic, the Prophetic, the Parenetic [hortatory], and the Historical books of the Old Instrument. Which being completed — the divine power favoring [us] — our labor will find the wished-for end of our whole work.

CATALOGUE OF THE HERESIES which are confuted in this eighth Book (Haereseon quae in hoc octavo Libro confutantur catalogus)


Of the Old Testament in general	Heresy 1
Of the Old Testament	Heresy 2
Of the books of the Mosaic law	Heresy 3
Of the Prophetic books	Heresy 4
Of the book of Psalms	Heresy 5
Of the book of Daniel	Heresy 6
Of Ecclesiastes	Heresy 7
Of the Canticle of Canticles	Heresy 8
Of Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus	Heresy 9
Of the book of Job	Heresy 10
Of the books of Esdras, Tobias, Judith, and Esther	Heresy 11
Of the books of the Maccabees	Heresy 12
Of the Translations of divine Scripture	Heresy 13