ience "[Greek: tois huph' hemon gegrammenois dia
tou hagiou pneumatos]" (LXIII. 2).]

[Footnote 103: Tertull. de exhort. 4: "Spiritum quidem dei etiam fideles
habent, sed non omnes fideles apostoli ... Proprie enim apostoli
spiritum sanctum habent, qui plene habent in operibus prophetiae et
efficacia virtutum documentisque linguarum, non ex parte, quod ceteri."
Clem. Alex. Strom. IV. 21. 135: [Greek: Hekastos idion echei charisma
apo theou, ho men houtos, ho de houtos, hoi apostoloi de en pasi
pepleromenoi]; Serapion in Euseb., H. E. VI. 12. 3: [Greek: hemeis kai
ton Petron kai tous allous apostolous apodechometha hos Christon]. The
success of the canon here referred to was an undoubted blessing, for, as
the result of enthusiasm, Christianity was menaced with complete
corruption, and things and ideas, no matter how alien to its spirit,
were able to obtain a lodgment under its protection. The removal of this
danger, which was in some measure averted by the canon, was indeed
coupled with great disadvantages, inasmuch as believers were referred in
legal fashion to a new book, and the writings contained in it were at
first completely obscured by the assumption that they were inspired and
by the requirement of an "expositio legitima."]

[Footnote 104: See Tertull., de virg. vol. 4, de resurr. 24, de ieiun.
15, de pudic. 12. Sufficiency is above all included in the concept
"inspiration" (see for ex. Tertull., de monog. 4: "Negat scriptura quod
non notat"), and the same measure of authority belongs to all parts (see
Iren., IV. 28. 3. "Nihil vacuum neque sine signo apud deum").]

[Footnote 105: The direct designation "prophets" was, however, as a
rule, avoided. The conflict with Montanism made it expedient to refrain
from this name; but see Tertullian, adv. Marc. IV. 24: "Tam apostolus
Moyses, quam et apostoli prophetae."]

[Footnote 106: Compare also what the author of the Muratorian Fragment
says in the passage about the Shepherd of Hermas.]

[Footnote 107: This caused the most decisive breach with tradition, and
the estimate to be formed of the Apocalypses must at first have remained
an open question. Their fate was long undecided in the West; but it was
very soon settled that they could have no claim to public recognition in
the Church, because their authors had not that fulness of the Spirit
which belongs to the Apostles alone.]

[Footnote 108: The disputed question as to whether all the acknowledged
apostolic writin