Augustine on the Canon

[Lazerlike42]

This lovely site contains the following statement:

"The early church fathers only accepted the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament. The only exception was Augustine (A. D. 400) who included the books of the Apocrypha (those “extra” books that some Bibles include between the books of the Old and New Testaments). However, he did acknowledge that they were not fully authoritative. "

Now I don’t need most of the stuff addressed, I was just providing the source. I don’t really even need the canonicity of the deuterocanon addressed. I am only curious as to what this statement is supposed to be based on. I know we can throw it out because he provides no proof, but Norman Geisler must at least have some place that this idea supposedly comes from…

 

[volzcpa]

Here one early father who supported the Septuagint

Justin the Martyr in his “Dialogue with Trypho, a Jew,” written about 180 AD, writes in chapter 71,
"But I am far from putting reliance in your teachers, who refuse to admit that the interpretation made by the seventy elders who were with Ptolemy [king] of the Egyptians is a correct one; and they attempt to frame another. And I wish you to observe, that they have altogether taken away many Scriptures from the translations effected by those seventy elders
who were with Ptolemy, and by which this very man who was crucified is proved to have been set forth expressly as God, and man… but I proceed to carry on my discussions by means of those passages which are still admitted by you. For you assent to those which I have brought before your attention, except that you contradict the statement, ‘Behold, the virgin shall conceive,’and say it ought to read, ‘Behold the young woman shall conceive.’