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Athanasius: Festal Letter 39 (367 CE), Surviving Canonical Excerpt

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, volume IV (1892); CCEL transcription.
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  1. (For 367.) Of the particular books and their number, which are accepted by the Church. From the thirty-ninth Letter of Holy Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, on the Paschal festival; wherein he defines canonically what are the divine books which are accepted by the Church. · Translated text
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