Isagoge in canonicas septem epistolas

is condemned: yet this title shows that it is no less in the canon than the Pauline ones, nor is less authority to be attributed to it. Thus, it shows the consensus both of the doctrine and the judgment of the church receiving this with the others as having equal authority. Furthermore, those who say it is not Apostolic have these arguments, for the most part. First, because it applies the passage concerning the faith of Abraham from the 15th chapter of Genesis against the mind of Paul to the Romans, chapter 4, regarding works. The passage is below in chapter 2, verse 15. But it can easily be answered that this is not done against the mind of Paul. For he cites Moses in good faith and shows that Abraham’s faith was illustrated by his works. An opinion which the Apostle Paul would undoubtedly have approved as well, since he himself wants faith to be industrious and never approves of an empty phantom of faith.

2 In the second place, they say that he never, or at least rarely, speaks of Christ, a name which is found more frequently in the mouth of the remaining Apostles. We respond...