The Arians are repeatedly charged by St. Ambrose
with falsifying and manipulating Scripture for their own ends, not
always, it would seem, very justly, but the same charge is a common one
against all heretical bodies in early days. As to the Canon, he
would seem to have no very definite rule. He admits Tobit as
prophetic, Judith as canonical, nor does he distinguish between
canonical and deuterocanonical, while the sapiential books are all
attributed to Solomon. He quotes Baruch as Jeremiah, and refers
to the History of Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, and other apocryphal
works as “Scripture.” Ezra, he says, re-established
holy Scripture by memory, Ep. 63, 30. and he quotes the
fourth book of Esdras.