Caius

“ The learning of the Church was then mainly in the East. It was by the influence of the East, in the West, that the church of Rome was enabled to recover that epistle. It was also the influence of the Apocalyptic churches of Asia that preserved the Apocalypse as an inspired work of St. John to the church of Rome.” By the deference with which the author of the Refutation speaks of the Apocalypse, we are able, among other evidences, to decide that it is not the work of Caius. ”

“ Note, that its author says, “We receive the Apocalypse,” etc. “Some amongst us will not have,” etc. (see p. 602, infra) . Thus, the comprovincials have a voice, as in the cases cited by Hippolytus. See (pp. 157, 159, supra) Elucidations VI. and XI. The Bishop of Rome seems, by this Fragment, to have received the Apocalypse of Peter (Eusebius, H. E., book iii. cap. 25) , but it was thrown out as spurious by the Church nevertheless. ”

“ Footnotes ↑ The ingenious conjecture of Wordsworth, who surmises that καὶ ἐθνῶν ἐπίσκοπον, in Photius, should be read καὶ ἑωθινῶν. Hippolytus, p. 30. Another conjecture is ̓Αθηνῶν. For the originals of these Fragments and learned notes, see Routh, Reliquæ Sacræ, ii. p. ”