The Apostles Wrote Little. - ANF09. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach, The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus, The Apology of Aristides, The Epistles of Clement (complete text), Origen’s Commentary on John, Books 1–10, and Commentary on Matthew, Books 1, 2, and 10

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3. The Apostles Wrote Little.⁴⁷⁸⁵

⁴⁷⁸⁵ From Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. vi. 25.

But he who was made fit to be a minister of the New Covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit, Paul, who fulfilled the Gospel from Jerusalem round about to Illyricum,⁴⁷⁸⁶

⁴⁷⁸⁶ Rom. xv. 19.
did not write epistles to all the churches he taught, and to those to whom he did write he sent no more than a few lines. And Peter, on whom the Church of Christ is built, against which the gates of hell shall not prevail⁴⁷⁸⁷

⁴⁷⁸⁷ Matt. xvi. 18.
left only one epistle of acknowledged genuineness. Suppose we allow that he left a second; for this is doubtful. What are we to say of him who leaned on Jesus’ breast, namely, John, who left one Gospel, though confessing⁴⁷⁸⁸

⁴⁷⁸⁸ John i. 20; 25.
that he could make so many that the world would not contain them? But he wrote also the Apocalypse, being commanded to be silent and not to write the voices of the seven thunders.⁴⁷⁸⁹

⁴⁷⁸⁹ Apoc. x. 4.
But he also left an epistle of very few lines. Suppose also a second and a third, since not all pronounce these to be genuine; but the two together do not amount to a hundred lines.

[Then, after enumerating the prophets and Apostles, and showing how each wrote only a little, or not even a little, he goes on:]⁴⁷⁹⁰

⁴⁷⁹⁰ The following fragments is found in Philocalia, pp. 27–30.
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