highly.” Excerpts from Dionysius became widely known, also to Luther (cf. his prefaces), through Eusebius’s History of the Church. The Origenist Eusebius counted the Apocalypse among the “homologoumena,” writings acknowledged by the churches, but he added the comment, “if one wishes.” Simultaneously he counted it also among the spurious, rejected writings, adding the same comment, “if one wishes.” His own preference was clearly for exclusion of this book from the canonical writings of the New Testament.