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Does anyone have any reference that the Catholic Church put the Bible together in 397?
It didn’t. The canon of Scripture was not infallibly defined until the Council of Trent, though some regional councils probably addressed it (including the Third Council of Carthage in 397; none of these would be generally binding, though they might serve as expressions of the general sense or mood re: the canon in the Church at the time). Rather the canon sort of evolved over the course of the first few centuries. By the time of Augustine it seems to have been the general opinion that the canon was decided and that discussion on the topic was over.Does anyone have any reference that the Catholic Church put the Bible together in 397?
The Ecumenical Council of Florence ruled that all 73 books of the Tridentine Canon were divinely inspired well before the Council of Trent,It didn’t. The canon of Scripture was not infallibly defined until the Council of Trent, though some regional councils probably addressed it (including the Third Council of Carthage in 397; none of these would be generally binding, though they might serve as expressions of the general sense or mood re: the canon in the Church at the time). Rather the canon sort of evolved over the course of the first few centuries. By the time of Augustine it seems to have been the general opinion that the canon was decided and that discussion on the topic was over.