Epiphanius

Epiphanius (about A.D. 385).

Epiphanius was bishop of Salamis (isle of Cyprus) from 367 to 402. See Greek text in Westcott, appendix D.

From the Panarion viii. 6.

[He names the Old Testament books thus: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua son of Nun, Judges, Ruth, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, First Kings, Second Kings, Third Kings, Fourth Kings,^(a) First Chronicles, Second Chronicles, the Twelve Prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah with his Lamentations and Epistle and Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, First Esdras, Second Esdras,^(b) Esther.] These are the twenty-seven books given by God to the Jews. But they are to be counted as twenty-two, the number of the Hebrew letters, since ten books are doubled and counted as five . . . There are also two other books near to them in substance, the Wisdom of Sirach and the Wisdom of Solomon, besides some other apocryphal books. All these holy books also taught Judaism the things kept by the law until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

From the Panarion lxxvi. 5.

If you^(c) had been begotten by the Holy Spirit and instructed in the prophets and apostles, you must have gone through from the beginning of the Genesis of the world until the times of Esther in twenty-seven books of the Old Testament, which are also numbered as twenty-two, also in the four holy Gospels, and in fourteen epistles of the holy apostle Paul, and in the writings which come before these, including the Acts of the Apostles in their times and the catholic epistles of James, Peter, John and Jude, and in the Revelation of John, and in the Wisdom books, I mean those of Solomon and of the son of Sirach^(d) in short, all the divine writings. . .

^(a) That is, what we call First and Second Samuel and First and Second Kings.

^(b) That is, what we call Nehemiah.

^(c) The rhetorical address is to the Arian writer Aetius.

^(d) That is, the Wisdom of Solomon and Ecclesiasticus