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The early church on the canon of the scriptures
The early church canon of the OT was given to us by the Jewish people and is highly supported by the early Christian brothers who some call “church fathers”. The first person to have differing views for the list of the canon is Augustine who influenced the councils of the west in hippo (393) and Carthage in 397 and 419. The point of this article is to show that most Christians and churches only accepted the 22/24 Hebrew books as canonical and the apocryphal as only for edification of the new believers. To accomplish that, we will provide the “church fathers” and their quotes and direct links to their canons.