Even later the canonicity of Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, and Esther was sometimes questioned; most of them were regarded as authoritative as early as 100 B.
In New Testament times its canonicity is fully established (e.
Jesus' use of the Psalter indicates that in his day its canonicitywas already thoroughly established.
The most learned and intelligent of Protestant divines here almost all doubted or denied the canonicity of the book of Revelation.
From the earliest days the canonicity of this book has been disputed.
Talmud, when the controversy turned mainly upon the canonicity of Ecclesiastes, which the school of Schammai, which had the majority, opposed; so that that book was probably excluded.
Thus the question of the canonicity of certain books was discussed by two synods.
Up to this time the members of the Sanhedrin themselves, in whom was vested the power to fix the canon, disputed the canonicity of certain portions of the Hebrew Scriptures.
Upon the testimony of Tertullian we very largely depend for our proof of the canonicity of the books of the New Testament.
The canonicity of the Old Testament books does not rest on such evidence as this,[183] and it is hardly worth while to pursue it further.
We acknowledge the canonicity of the Book, its high value when rightly apprehended, and its rightful acceptance as a sacred book; but this in nowise proves its authenticity.
He denies thecanonicity of James, without regarding it as spurious.
He quotes also from James and from Jude, adding that their canonicity was doubted.
Yet here we find the representative men of learning in both agreed on this one point—the authorship and canonicity of the Epistle to the Laodiceans.
Either they assign to it a place in the Canon with the other Epistles of St Paul, or they acquiesce in its exclusion, holding that the Church has authority to pronounce for or against the Canonicity even of Apostolic writings.
And they most certainly would have been so referred, and dire would have been Christian wrath against those who refused to admit these words as a proof of the canonicity of Luke's Gospel in the time of Ignatius.
But we must remember that additional sections, though smaller in extent, appear in other books of the LXX, of whose canonicity there appears to have been no question, e.
Nor is it clear that her powers as to them, when deciding for canonicity or no, were of necessity more restricted than her powers as to the N.
Origen also asserts the canonicity of Susanna in Hom.
It must not be forgotten, however, that the authorship of Daniel is of course suggested by most of those who defend the canonicity of the book.
This author's view, then, for and against the canonicity looks somewhat undecided.
Julius Africanus alone among the older Fathers disputes the canonicity of these fragments.
We see then that the testimonies to canonicity are of considerable strength, more so than is perhaps generally realised, even though the arguments to the contrary may be still stronger.
Oral repetition, as well as non-canonicity amongst the Jews will, to a considerable extent, account for the divergences between the LXX and Theodotion's recensions.
Critics had an easy task in showing that the church's theory of inspiration and canonicity was incorrect; but made no progress toward a constructive explanation of the religious, or even the historical, significance of the literature.
For a time the Shepherd of Hermas and the Apocalypse of Peter rivalled the claims to canonicity of our own Revelation of John, but were soon dropped.
This being so, he was indifferent to any quotations or references which went towards establishing the canonicity of those books which had never been disputed in the Church.
Grant that it is "the traditionary testimony of the Church" which guarantees the canonicity of each and all of the books of the Old and New Testaments.
Such being the case, it is manifest that the rejection of the mystical signification of its contents must revive the question of the canonicity of the book.
As to the rationalists, it is not the translation of the sacred books they attack, but the books themselves, their canonicity and supernatural origin.
The unadulterated traditions preserved by the church have no scientific value in the eyes of rationalism, which only admits the canonicity of those books that can trace the proofs of their origin back to the very time of the apostles.
Up to this time the canonicity of the Canticles was not unquestioned; and the final decision as to the sanctity of the book, so energetically carried through by R.
This late date finds some confirmation in the fact that Canticles belongs to the third and latest part of the Old Testament canon, and that its canonicity was still in dispute at the end of the 1st century A.
The partisanship, low trickery, and mob violence by which votes of councils were obtained to establish ecclesiastical dogmas, the canonicity of Scriptures, etc.
The men who first suggested their canonicity were Irenaeus of Lyons, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian of Carthage.
Bodenstein of Carlstad examined the question of canonicity more thoroughly than any of his contemporaries, and followed out the principle of private judgment in regard to it.
Surely the practical use of writings is an evidence of their canonicity as strong as theoretical opinions.
The conception of canonicity and inspiration attaching to New Testament books did not exist till the time of Irenæus.
Such later tradition took curious ways of justifying the canonicity of Daniel and the redaction of it by the great synagogue, ex gr.
Traces of later ideas about the canonicity of the New Testament appear in the shorter Greek recension of the Ignatian epistles (about 175 A.
Thus the question of the canonicity of certain books was discussed at two synods.
This is exemplified in the history of the canon, where the fallibility of such bodies in determining canonicity is conspicuous.
The testimony of Origen, who flourished in the third century, and that of Tertullian, who lived during the second, were tested and pronounced conclusive by the later writers in favor of the canonicity of the gospels and the apostolic writings.
The recognized canonicity of the Old Testament books is attested by the numerous references in the latter to the earlier books, and by the many quotations from the Old Testament occurring in the New.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canonicity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
