In the first three centuries of Christian history, the place of James in the canon was somewhat uncertain. Though alluded to in non-biblical writings as early as A.D. 130 (in The Shepherd of Hermas), the first writer known to have quoted it explicitly as Scripture was Origen (about A.D. 245). James was not included in the Muratorian Fragment, a list of canonical writings drawn up in Rome about A.D. 170. Nor was James included in the Old Latin version of the Bible. Eusebius (A.D. 325)
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