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Innocent I left out Hebrews.

F.F Bruce, The Canon of Scripture, p234.

According to Frederick Fyvie Bruce (1910-1990) ?

However, Innocent, Bishop of Rome' letter to Exsuperius (S.D. 405) tells a different tale.

"Epistles of the apostle Paul fourteen."

"F.F. Bruce prefers "thirteen" here, which implies the omission of Hebrews. He states that "the three best" copies of the letter "reckon Paul's epistles as thirteen (written xiii), but the rest reckon them as fourteen (written xiiii)." (Canon of Scripture, p. 234.) But it is not at all probable that Hebrews would have been deliberately omitted from the list by a Roman bishop in the year 405, and the variation between xiiii and xiii is easily explained by scribal error."

[ealgeone]

From the website you cite.

5. F.F. Bruce prefers "thirteen" here, which implies the omission of Hebrews. He states that "the three best" copies of the letter "reckon Paul's epistles as thirteen (written xiii), but the rest reckon them as fourteen (written xiiii)." (Canon of Scripture, p. 234.) But it is not at all probable that Hebrews would have been deliberately omitted from the list by a Roman bishop in the year 405, and the variation between xiiii and xiii is easily explained by scribal error.

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Now, the exact quote from the book.

The omission of Hebrews from the New Testament is surprising. The manuscripts, in fact are divergent in their testimony: the three best ones reckon Paul's epistles are thirteen (written XIII), but the rest reckon them as fourteen (written XIIII).