he has made the following statements]: Matthew put together the oracles [of the Lord] in the Hebrew language, and each one interpreted them as best he could. [The same person uses proofs from the First Epistle of John, and from the Epistle of Peter in like manner. And he also gives another story of a woman31 who was accused of many sins before the Lord, which is to be found in the Gospel according to the Hebrews.] 31 Rufinus supposes this story to be the same as that now found in the textus receptus of Gospel of John viii. 1–11,—the woman taken in adultery. 413 VI.