Everett Ferguson says, “The early ecclesiastical writers did not regard themselves as deciding which books to accept or reject. Rather, they saw themselves as acknowledging which books had been handed down to them.”76 In Antioch in the 190s, Bishop Serapion testifies that the pseudonymous Gospel of Peter was not among the books he had received from his forebears.77 This means, of course, that other books were in that collection. To judge from the works of Theophilus (see note 68), one of Serapion’s