Christ knew which books the Holy Spirit authored. No Christian can doubt that. Equally certain is that Christ would have made this crucial datum known to His inspired Apostles, whether through common practice, verbal instruction, the illumination of the Holy Spirit, or a combination of these. In turn it was the Apostles' duty to hand on this authentic and normative collection of Old Testament Scripture to the Church (Matthew 28:20). Therefore, the most important question to be answered is this: Was the Deuterocanon part of that normative collection of inspired writings? I believe it was and in
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