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5We receive the apocalypses of John and Peter only, which [latter] some of us do not wish to be read in church. But Hennas wrote the Shepherd in the city of Rome most recently in our own times while his brother bishop, Pius, was occupying the chair of the church of Rome; and so indeed it ought to be read; but that it be made public to the people in the church or [placed] among the prophets (whose number is complete) or among the apostles is not possible to the end of time.
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