33. The "Acknowledged" Books

 
Now in a celebrated passage of the third book of his " History " he has given, as universally acknowledged, fully canonical books: the Four Gospels, the Acts, Paul's Epistles, First John, First Peter, and, with some reservation, the Apocalypse. These, it was considered, all satisfied the two conditions of being written by the persons whose names they bore, and by apostolic persons.