They lack the approval of the Church.
They lack the approval of the Church.
§ 227. [IV] The additions lack the approval of the Israelite and early Christian churches. Jerome, preface to Daniel: “I am surprised that some grumblers complain to me as if I had butchered that book, because Origen, Eusebius, Apollinarius, and other churchmen and teachers of Greek admit that the Hebrews do not have these visions, as I have called them. I am also surprised that he does not have to respond to Porphyrius on behalf of those things that have no scriptural authority.” Julius Africanus rejected the story of Susanna as corrupt and recent, according to Eusebius (Hist. eccles., bk. 6, c. 23) and the author of the book De mirabilibus Scripturae in the works of Augustine (bk. 2, c. 32). But regarding the lions’ den and the bringing in of Habakkuk in the Tale of Bel and the Dragon, nothing is posited on that account in this order because it is not contained in the authority of Holy Scripture.