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This work grew out of lectures given by Professor Gigot at St. John's Boston Ecclesiastical Seminary and was intended chiefly as a textbook. Its approach is that of the historical-critical method and is divided in three sections: a discussion of how the canon was assembled and recognized as inspired, textual criticism of the manner in which the books have been transmitted to posterity, and...

the Church receives as the inspired rule of faith and practice.1 The corresponding term, Canonical, occurs for the first time in the fifty-ninth decree of the Council of Laodicea (fourth century, A.D.), where we are told that “private (ἰδιωτικόι) psalms should not be read in the Church, nor uncanonized (ἀκανὸνιστα) books, but only the canonical ones (τὰ κανονικὰ) of the New and Old Testaments.” The word Canonical seems therefore to have meant, from the first, books which have been canonized
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