Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

identified and protected the writings left to the
church by the apostles. From that day to this the
Received Text and the New Testaments translated
from it are far in the lead of any other Bibles in
use.
Rejection of Spurious Old Testament Books
Not only did Lucian certify the genuine New
Testament, but he spent years of arduous labor
upon the Old Testament.[17] As the Greek
language was the prevalent tongue in which
leading works were published throughout the
civilized world, he translated the Hebrew
Scriptures into Greek. He did this work so well that
even Jerome, his bitter opponent, admitted that his
Greek translation of the Old Testament held sway
in the capital city of Constantinople and in most of
the Near East.[18]
Jerome also entered the same field and
translated the Hebrew Bible, not only into Greek,
but also into Latin. When the two translations of
the Hebrew Bible appeared, there was a marked
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