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This will be a very quite century regarding the Canon of the New Testament.
Cosmos Indicopleustes never mentions James, First Peter, Second Peter, First John, Second John, Third John, Jude, or Revelation (Davidson, The Canon of the Bible, p. 200).
Junilius divided the books of the Bible into three classifications: "Perfect, intermediate, and no authority." Ironically those he considered "perfect" contained the Wisdom of Jesus, which is not now in our Bibles. Those he considered "intermediates" contained the collection of James, Second Peter, Jude, Second John, and Third John, all of which we consider as authoritative as any. Within the classification of "no authority" he included the book of Revelation because it was doubted by man in the East (De. partibus divine legis, i. 2).
As you can see by now the canon of the New Testament was somewhat stable and fixed "theologically" and only few changes need be made from this time period onward. Yet there are a few. Let us continue as we look at what happened during the 7th through the 10th century.
