Often some Protestant will provide statements by St Jerome where he questions or rejects the deuterocanonical books,
See the following site on examples of when St Jerome calls the books scripture (they also address many Protestant arguments by the Church Fathers) and St Jerome many times quotes the books Protestants call apocrypha.
The examples are as follows:
Do not, my dearest
brother, estimate my worth by the number of my years. Gray hairs are not wisdom;
it is wisdom which is as good as gray hairs At least that is what Solomon says: "wisdom is the gray hair unto
men.’ [Wisdom 4:9]" Moses too in
choosing the seventy elders is told to take those whom he knows to be elders
indeed, and to select them not for their years but for their discretion (Num.
11:16)? And, as a boy, Daniel judges old men and
in the flower of youth condemns the incontinence of age [Daniel 13:55-59 aka Story of Susannah 55-59, only
found in the Catholic Bibles)—St Jerome, To Paulinus, Epistle 58 (A.D.
395), in NPNF2, VI:119
"I would cite the
words of the psalmist: 'the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,’ [Ps
51:17] and those of Ezekiel 'I prefer the repentance of a sinner rather
than his death,’ [Ez 18:23] AND THOSE OF BARUCH, 'Arise, arise, O
Jerusalem,’ [Baruch 5:5] AND MANY OTHER PROCLAMATIONS MADE BY THE TRUMPETS
OF THE PROPHETS."—St Jerome, To Oceanus, Epistle 77:4 (A.D. 399),
in NPNF2, VI:159
still our merriment
must not forget the limit set by Scripture, and we must not stray too far
from the boundary of our wrestling-ground. Your presents, indeed, remind me
of the sacred volume, for in it Ezekiel decks Jerusalem with bracelets,
(Eze. 16:11) Baruch receives letters from Jeremiah,(Jer. 36, Bar. 6) and
the Holy Spirit descends in the form of a dove at the baptism of Christ.(Mt.
3:16)—St Jerome, To Eustochium, Epistle 31:2 (A.D.
384), in NPNF2, VI:45
For the lion lurks in ambush to slay the innocent. [Sir. 27:5] "Potters' vessels are proved by the furnace, and just men by the trial of tribulation." And in another place it is written: [Sir. 2:1] "My son, when thou comest to serve the Lord, prepare thyself for temptation."—St Jerome, Against Jovinianus,, Book 2, 3 NPNF2, VI:390
"Yet the Holy Spirit in the thirty-ninth(9) psalm, while lamenting that all men walk in a vain show, and that they are subject to sins, speaks thus: "For all that every man walketh in the image."(Psalm 39:6) Also after David's time, in the reign of Solomon his son, we read a somewhat similar reference to the divine likeness. For in the book of Wisdom, which is inscribed with his name, Solomon says: "God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity."[Wisdom 2:23] And again, about eleven hundred and eleven years afterwards, we read in the New Testament that men have not lost the image of God. For James, an apostle and brother of the Lord, whom I have mentioned above--that we may not be entangled in the snares of Origen--teaches us that man does possess God's image and likeness. For, after a somewhat discursive account of the human tongue, he has gone on to say of it: "It is an unruly evil ... therewith bless we God, even the Father and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God."(James 3:8-9) Paul, too, the "chosen vessel,"(Acts 9:15) who in his preaching has fully maintained the doctrine of the gospel, instructs us that man is made in the image and after the likeness of God. "A man," he says, "ought not to wear long hair, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God."(1 Cor. 11:7) He speaks of "the image" simply, but explains the nature of the likeness by the word "glory." Instead of THE THREE PROOFS FROM HOLY SCRIPTURE which you said would satisfy you if I could produce them, BEHOLD I HAVE GIVEN YOU SEVEN"—St Jerome, Letter 51, 6, 7, NPNF2, VI:87-8
Here is another example of St Jerome calling the alleged “apocrypha” scripture:
Holy scripture says: ""a tale out of season is as music in mourning."" [Sirach 22:6]—St Jerome Letter 118 Section 1, Paragraph 2 To Julian
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