Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/Additional Canons 4/Part 20

VII.

From the Metre Poems of St. Gregory Theologus, Specifying which Books of the Old and New Testament Should Be Read.

Let not other books seduce your mind:&#160; for many malignant writings have been disseminated.&#160; The historical books are twelve in number by the Hebrew count, [then follow the names of the books of the Old Testament but Esther is omitted, one Esdras, and all the Deutero-Canonical books].&#160; Thus there are twenty-two books of the Old Testament which correspond to the Hebrew letters.&#160; The number of the books of the New Mystery are Matthew, who wrote the Miracles of Christ for the Hebrews; Mark for Italy; Luke, for Greece; John, the enterer of heaven, was a preacher to all, then the Acts, the xiv. Epistles of Paul, the vii. Catholic Epistles, and so you have all the books.&#160; If there is any beside these, do not repute it genuine.