The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

Gospels, according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Acts of the Apostles written by Luke the Evangelist; fourteen Epistles of Paul the Apostle—to the Romans, two to the Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, to the Colossians, two to the Thessalonians, two to Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon, to the Hebrews; two of Peter the Apostle, three of John the Apostle, one of James the Apostle, one of Jude the Apostle, and the Apocalypse of John the Apostle; whole with all their parts, as they have been accustomed to be read in the Church until now, and as they are held in the Latin Vulgate edition.

VI. The Protocanonical Scriptures are those which the Orthodox Church has received into the Canon without contradiction from the very beginning. Such are: the Pentateuch of Moses, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, four of Kings, two of Chronicles, two of Ezra, Job, the Psalter, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticles Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah with the Threni Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, the twelve Prophets. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts of the Apostles, the Epistle to the Romans, two to the Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, to the Colossians, two to the Thessalonians, two to Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon, the first Epistle of Peter, the first Epistle of John.

VII. The Deuterocanonical Scriptures are those which the Church received into the Canon not immediately, but gradually, as time progressed, not without the contradiction of some. Such are: Esther, Tobit, Judith, Baruch, Jeremiah's Lamentations/Letter of Jeremiah, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus: the addition to Daniel, that is, the prayer of Azariah, the Hymn of the Three Children, the history of Susanna, the history of Bel, the two books of Maccabees, the last chapter of Mark, the history of the Agony of Christ, and the history of the woman caught in adultery, the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of James, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, the Epistle of Jude, the Apocalypse; all of which we assert to be, just like the Protocanonical ones, Sacred, Canonical, and authentic, and of great value for proving and confirming ecclesiastical dogmas, and to be cited alongside the Fathers and the Church.

VIII. The last of the Canons of the Apostles, or those attributed to them, which is the eighty-fifth, lists the Canon of the Sacred books, and among them are enumerated two Epistles, and the ordinances of Pope Clement to the Bishops edited in eight books; although they seem to have been received and approved by the Oriental Church at the beginning of the sixth century, as is clear from both the Constitution of the Emperor Justinian and the Trullan Synod (which, however, was not admitted by the Church as a legitimate Council), indeed, even the first fifty of them have had some authority in the Latin Church, and have sometimes served in Ecclesiastical judgments (whatever may be the case regarding the remaining eighty-four which do not pertain to our matter), we reject them, and most consistently assert that they are falsified, apocryphal, and surreptitious clandestinely obtained, and we say that no authority for the Canon of the Sacred books can be derived or result from them.