The _Greeks_ indeed, in the Second Canon of the Council, that, in 692. was held at _Constantinople_, in a Tower of the Imperial Palace, called _Trullus_, that is, the _Cupola_, declare, that they had been falsified, in several Places, by the Heretics. _Photius_ thinks that, with respect to the Style, they fall short of the _Recognitions_, but far excel them in the Purity of the Doctrine, adding, at the same time, that it is no easy Task to clear them from the Imputation of _Arianism_[146]. Dr. _Pearson_ takes them to be a Collection of several Pieces, published in the earliest Times, under the Name of the Apostles, and containing, as was pretended, the Instructions they had given[147]. _Albaspinæus_, Bishop of _Orange_, thinks the Matter they contain excellent, and the Whole agreeable to the Discipline observed by the _Greek_ Church, during the Four first Centuries; bur nevertheless he looks upon them only as a Collection of the different Customs, that were established, by degrees, in the Church, and some of which were disputed even in the Fourth Century[148]; so that they can by no means be ascribed either to the Apostles, or to _Clement_. [Sidenote: _The Canons of the Apostles._] The _Constitutions_ end with 85 Canons, long known by the Title of _The Canons of the Apostles_; but, as they contain several things that were not received in the Apostles Time, nor in _Clement_’s, the ablest Critics are of Opinion, that they likewise are but a Collection of several Decrees made in the first Ages of the Church, and that they were not collected into one Body till the Third Century[149]. I don’t find them quoted before the Council of _Constantinople_ in 394. The _Greeks_, in the Council of the Year 692. mentioned above, bound themselves to the Observance of them; but they are all rejected by Pope _Gelasius_: however, _Dionysius Exiguus_ having, not long after, placed the first Fifty at the Head of his Collection, they were received by degrees; but the other Thirty-five have not been admitted to this Day.