Hugh of St. Victor.
Hugh of St. Victor.
Hugh of St. Victor (named for a monastery in a Paris suburb that received its name from St. Victor) writes: “As there are twenty-two letters that we use in writing and saying everything in Hebrew, and as the human voice is comprehended in their sounds [initiis], so also we count twenty-two volumes with which, as if with letters and sounds, the still weak and nursing infancy of our man is nourished in God’s teaching” (Didascal., bk. 4, c. 8). In his prologue of De sacram., bk. 2, c. 7, he says: “Those controversial books indeed are read, but they are written neither in the corpus of the text nor in the canon of authority. The books are the Books of Tobit, Judith, the Maccabees, the Wisdom of Solomon, and Ecclesiasticus.”