Cajetan's view on the canon

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Concilium Tridentinum (t. 5): Actorum pars altera: Acta post sessionem tertiam usque ad Concilium Bononiam translatum p. 5n1:

What is said here about Cardinal Thomas Caietano is not to be taken so strictly, since the most famous theologian in cutting out of the canon the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament (Judith, Tobias, Maccabees, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus) very openly follows St. Jerome, although those same books he admits for the edification of the faithful. See the same commentary in all the authentic Old Testament historical books (Rome 1535) at the end after the book Esther, p. 397. On the other hand, it is clear that Cajetan's exegetical works offended in many ways and were fiercely attacked by several writers of no small name. Hurter, Nomenclator I, 1018, Conc. Trid. I, 32 addn. I.]

Quæ hic de Thoma Caietano cardinale dicuntur, non ita stricte sumenda sunt, cum celeberrimus alioquin theologus in resecandis e canone libris deuterocanonicis veteris testamenti (Iudith, Tobiæ, Machabæorum, Sapientiæ, Ecclesiastici) apertissime S. Hieronymum sequatur licet eosdem libros ad aedificationem fidelium admittat. Vide eiusdem commentarium in omnes authenticos vet. test. historiales libros (Romæ 1535) in fine post librum Esther f 397. De cetero constat, opera exegetica Caietam in multis offendisse et a compluribus scriptoribus non parvi nominis acriter oppugnata esse. Hurter, Nomenclator I, 1018, Conc. Trid. I, 32 adn. I.

Cdl. Cajetan also opposed the Pauline authorship of the Letter to the Hebrews; cf. ¶¶5-6 of § "4. The Theologian of the Council of Trent" of the introduction to Against All Heresies by Alfonso de Castro, O.F.M., the theologian tasked with refuting Cdl. Cajetan.

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