Gospel of Peter

Serapion, bishop of Antioch

For we, brethren, receive both Peter and the other apostles as Christ; but we reject intelligently the writings falsely ascribed [Greek pseudepigrapha] to them, knowing that such were not handed down to us.¹

Footnotes

1. Quoted in Eusebius, Church History , 6.12.4. Translation in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers , Second Series (14 volumes; ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace; repr. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994) 1.258 (hereafter cited as NPNF 2 ). ↩︎