{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/206/2060209.htm","path":"chr/ecf/206/2060209.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/206/2060209.htm","text":"The Preface is to Chromatius and Heliodorus. It recognizes that the books are apocryphal. After his usual complaints of \u201cthe Pharisees\u201d who impugned his translations, he says: \u201cInasmuch as the Chaldee is closely allied to the Hebrew, I procured the help of the most skilful speaker of both languages I could find, and gave to the subject one day\u2019s hasty labour, my method being to explain in Latin, with the aid of a secretary, whatever an interpreter expressed to me in Hebrew words.\u201d As to Judith, he notes that the Council of Nic\u00e6a had, contrary to the Hebrew tradition, included it in the Canon of Scripture, and this, with his friends\u2019 requests, had induced him to undertake the labour of emendation and translation.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VI: Prefaces.: Tobit and Judith.","type":"page"}