would have countenanced anything of the sort. It is, however, open to question whether this is not to transplant a modern attitude, a modern way of thinking, back into the first century, where attitude and outlook in such matters may have been very different. The fact of the matter is that, as the pages of Eusebius show, a very large number of writings was placed under the names of apostles or other worthies of a bygone age; indeed, pseudepigraphy was by no means uncommon in the ancient world. As