Apocrypha named but not canonical authority
Some ask about books named in the Scriptures yet not read in the church’s canon. Apostles and evangelists sometimes brought forward examples found in apocrypha; yet not for that reason is a place of authority to be given to apocrypha. The eternal boundaries are not to be moved, which our fathers set. For us it is not without danger to presume such a thing. For the present title we hold the reading: the Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.
Latin
Nonnulli quaerunt de libris qui in Scripturis nominantur nec tamen in canone ecclesiae leguntur. Apostoli et evangelistae nonnumquam exempla protulerunt quae in apocryphis inveniuntur; nec tamen ideo locus apocryphis ad auctoritatem dandus est. Non transferendi sunt termini aeterni quos statuerunt patres. Nobis non est absque periculo tale quid praesumere. De praesenti titulo tenemus editionem: Canticum Canticorum quod est Salomoni.
About this text
Origen’s Commentary on the Song of Songs, Prologus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–20.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII (GCS 33, 1925), Rufinus’s Latin of the Commentary Prologus. Lawson ACW 26 was not used as wording. This page is Prologus §§1–20 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VIII = GCS 33 (1925) (Latin · Commentary Prologus §§1–20)
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