Pope Innocent I (401-417
AD)
to Exsuperius, Bishop of Toulose
20 February AD 407
Source: Henry Denzinger's Enchiridion Symbolorum
Translated by Roy J. Feferrari
Loreto Publications www.loretopubs.org
Denzinger 96 (213 in newer editions)
A brief addition shows what books really are received in the
canon. These are the desiderata of which you wished to be informed verbally:
of Moses five books, that is, of Genesis, of Exodus, of Leviticus, of Numbers,
of Deuteronomy, and Josue, of Judges one book, of Kings four books, also Ruth,
of the Prophets sixteen books, of Solomon five books, the Psalms. Likewise of
the histories, Job one book, of Tobias one book, Esther one, Judith one, of
the Machabees two, of Esdras two, Paralipomenon two books. Likewise of the New
Testament: of the Gospels four books, of Paul the Apostle fourteen epistles,
of John three, epistles of Peter two, an epistle of Jude, an epistle of James,
the Acts of the Apostles, the Apocalypse of John.
Others, however, which were written by a certain Leucius
under the name of Matthias or of James the Less, or under the name of Peter
and John (or which were written by Nexocharis and Leonidas the philosophers
under the name of Andrew), or under the name of Thomas, and if there are any
others, you know that they ought not only tobe repudiated, but also condemned.
