Cyril of Jerusalem.
Cyril of Jerusalem.
§ 79. From Caesarea, let us go on to Jerusalem, where there also was an apostolic church because the apostles taught in Jerusalem for some time after Christ’s ascension. The bishop of the Church at Jerusalem was Cyril, who in Catech. 4, p. 98, clearly lists the canonical books in the same way. He says, “Know well the divine Scriptures, the twenty-two books.” Later, he lists the same books as we do, except that he connects Baruch to Jeremiah and adds: “Therefore read these twenty-two, but waste no time with the apocryphal books. Only meditate zealously on these writings that we read with confidence in the Church. The apostles and first bishops, leaders of the truth, who gave them to us, are wiser and more scrupulous than are you. Therefore because you are a child of the Church, do not transgress its boundaries.”