Prolegomenon III. What is the authority of the same book?

Who has denied the divine, and altogether canonical, authority of this book — whether at this time, or already long ago — I know [of] no one, except the Samaritans, and others, who either rejected the Old Testament alone [entirely], or taught that we ought to have been content with the Pentateuch of Moses alone — as I set forth in the general Prolegomena of the Bible. Perhaps, however, those who (in St. Jerome, on Isaiah ch. 16) by way of insult called Joshua “the bloody” [sanguinarium], attributed little to this book — though it always gives to him [Joshua] the testimony of the greatest virtue and of divine approbation. For there is not even any slight reason on account of which this authority could in any way be doubted, since both all the Christians hitherto, and the Jews, with conspiring [agreeing] minds, have embraced and venerated it as most certain, and dictated by GOD.