Dan. vii. 25. By “apocryphal” books
Cyril probably means all such as were not allowed to be read in the
public service of the Church: see Cat. iv. 33, note 3; and Bp.
Westcott’s note on the various meanings of the word ἀπόκρυφος,
Hist. of the Canon, P. III. c. 1. That the Apocalypse of
St. John is included under this term by Cyril, appears probable from
the following reasons suggested by the Benedictine Editor. (1) It
is not mentioned in the list of the Canonical Scriptures in iv.
36. (2) The earlier writers whom Cyril follows in this Lecture,
Irenæus, Hær. V., 26, § 1, and Hippolytus,
De Antichristo, § 34, combine the testimony of the
Apocalypse with that of Daniel. The omission in Cyril therefore
cannot have been accidental.