The Epistle of Jude, indeed, and two belonging to the above-named John—or bearing the name of John—are reckoned among the Catholic epistles; and the book of Wisdom, written by the friends of Solomon in his honour.
2We receive also the Apocalypse of John and that of Peter, though some amongst us will not have this latter read in the Church.
3The Pastor, moreover, did Hermas write very recently in our times in the city of Rome, while his brother bishop Pius sat in the chair of the Church of Rome.
4And therefore it also ought to be read; but it cannot be made public in the Church to the people, nor placed among the prophets, as their number is complete, nor among the apostles to the end of time.
5Of the writings of Arsinous, called also Valentinus, or of Miltiades, we receive nothing at all; those are rejected too who wrote the new Book of Psalms for Marcion, together with Basilides and the founder of the Asian Cataphrygians.