...existence of copies even in the present day, that a version of the whole of the New Testament, excepting the second epistle of St. Peter, the second and third of St. John, that of St. Jude, and the Apocalypse, was actually published at Antioch, where the purest ofthe three...

...where mentioned. • ' 5. Eusebias refers it to the eumkiyopnct, and places it in the same rank with the Epistle of St. James, the second Epistle of St....second and third of St. John, the Epistle of St. Jude, and the Apocalypse. ' 6. Epiphanias describes the Nazarene Gospel, as St. Matthew'» original : but...

...and the mixed or doubtful, composed the third. Amongst others, it was in this last class he placed the second epistle of St. Peter, the second and third of St. John, the episile of St. Jude, &c. The judicious and learned Eusebius, the father of ecclesiastical history,...

...carried up the antiquity of it as high as the apostolical times, hut without alledging any proof. As the second epistle of St. Peter, the second and third of St. John, that of St. Jude, and the Revelations, (which have been called in question for a long time) are not...

...books which Eusebius refers to the second class, or the class of books not universally received, are the Epistle of St. James, the second Epistle of St. Peter, the second and third of St. John, and the Epistle of St. Jude. And here we must again remember that Eusebius is not expressing any doubt...

...comprised in twenty-seven books, and twenty of these were received in all the churches without a doubt. But the epistle to the Hebrews, the epistle of St. James, the second epistle of St. Peter, the third epistle of St. John, the epistle of St. Jude, and the book of Revelation, were, for a time, doubted...

...and the Acts of the Apostles by St. Luke; and that the genuineness of the other seven books, namely, the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of St. James,...second Epistle of St. Peter, the second and third Epistles of St. John, the Epistle of St. Jude, and the Revelation, was never denied by the Catholic...

...and the Acts of the Apostles by St. Luke; and that the genuineness of the other seven books, namely, the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of St. James,...second Epistle of St. Peter, the second and third Epistles of St. John, the Epistle of St. Jude, and the Revelation, was never denied by the Catholic...

...purpose, if the epistle had been of authority with him. As for the disputed catholic epistles, that of James, the second epistle of St. Peter, the second and third of St. John, and that of St. Jude, we have no clear evidences what was his opinion of them. He had a great regard...

...which were at first not so universally received as the rest ; viz. the Epistle to the Hebrews, that of St. James, the Second Epistle of St. Peter, the Second and Third Epistles of St. John, the Epistle of St. Jude, and the Revelations ; it is to be observed, first, that...