The Holy Scriptures

From the Double Point of View of Science and of Faith

By François Samuel Robert Louis Gaussen

Part First - Canonicity of all Books of the New Testament

Book 1 - Chapter 13

 

SUMMARY OF ALL THE TESTIMONIES OF THE FOURTH CENTURY.

94, WE have, then, marked, in reviewing the space we have passed over, that the voice of the universal Church, ever unanimous, from apostolic times, on the first canon, and unanimous, from the date of the Council of Nice, on the second, finally became, in the course of the fourth century, unanimous on the second-first likewise. The temporary and late hesitations of the Churches of the West regarding the Epistle to the Hebrews had already almost entirely disappeared; and the temporary and late hesitations of the Churches of the East, regarding the Apocalypse, had, from the early part of the fourth century, disappeared likewise. The canon was thus, universally and for ever, recognised in all the Churches of Christendom,