THE TESTIMONY OF THE SIXTH CENTURY CHURCH FATHERS CONCERNING THE NEW TESTAMENT

This will be a very quite century regarding the Canon of the New Testament.

COSMOS INDICOPLEUSTES (535 A.D.)

Cosmos Indicopleustes never mentions James, First Peter, Second Peter, First John, Second John, Third John, Jude, or Revelation (Davidson, The Canon of the Bible, p. 200).

JUNILIUS, AN AFRICAN BISHOP (550 A.D.)

Junilius divided the books of the Bible into three classifications: "Perfect, intermediate, and no authority." Ironically those he considered "perfect" contained the Wisdom of Jesus, which is not now in our Bibles. Those he considered "intermediates" contained the collection of James, Second Peter, Jude, Second John, and Third John, all of which we consider as authoritative as any. Within the classification of "no authority" he included the book of Revelation because it was doubted by man in the East (De. partibus divine legis, i. 2).

Let us continue.