Chapter 27

FORMATION AND HISTORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON--1. General Remarks--2. Different Periods to be noticed--3. Apostolic Age--4. Age of the Apostolic Fathers--Remarks on their Quotations--5. Age of Transition--Events of this Age which awakened the Christian Church to a Full Consciousness of the Divine Authority of the Apostolic Writings--Execution of Versions--6. Age of the Early Church Fathers--They recognized a Canon, though not yet Complete--Canon of the Syriac Peshito, Muratorian Canon--Canon of the Councils of Laodicea and Carthage--7. Closing Remarks