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Wikipedia, ludlow favorite web-based encyclopedia tells us...
Revelation was the last book to be accepted into the Christian biblical canon, and even at the present day some Nestorian churches reject it. It was tainted because the heretical sect of the Montanists relied on it and doubts were raised over its Jewishness and authorship, and it was not until 419 AD that it was included in the canon.
https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/13997/what-historical-reasons-resulted-in-revelation-being-included-in-most-christian/14037
Wiki also tells us...
The Synod of Hippo refers to the synod of 393 which was hosted in Hippo Regius in northern Africa during the early Christian Church. Additional synods were held in 394, 397, 401 and 426. Some were attended by Augustine of Hippo.
So there were several meetings of Hippo. The first one was in 393 AD. But others followed, and the Bible wasn't finalized until about 419 AD. Not everything was settled in 393 AD.
ludlow merely took the earliest meeting and ran it up the flagpole.
He is, of course, wrong.
The whole area of "tradition" is riddled with difficulties. The early Church leader and writer Tertullian, who invented the idea of appealing to tradition, used it to justify the practice of triple immersion at baptism, the requirement that the Eucharist should be taken in the early morning, and the prohibition of kneeling at Easter or on Sundays. There is no doubt about the position of the early Church on these matters and it is for this reason that various reformed Churches have returned to at least some of these ancient practices.
(Quintus Septimus Florens) Tertullian (AD c.160-c.225). Like many later Christians, Tertullian delighted in the prospect of his enemies suffering in Hell. He adopted Montanist views (see page 123), which came to be considered heretical, and held that the orthodox line was the heretical one. He accused bishops of Rome of the Sabellian heresy, the doctrine that Father, Son, and Spirit represent different states (or modes or aspects) of a single god at different times (see also page 123). Around fifteen works in Latin or Greek are "lost", some of them as recently as the 9th century. Two books addressed to his wife confirm that he was married. He despised Greek philosophy, and regarded Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek thinkers as forefathers of heretics (De anima, iii.). Like most of his fellow Fathers, Tertullian is often described as misogynistic, in his case on the basis of the contents of his 'De Cultu Feminarum,' : "Do you not know that you are Eve? The judgment of God upon this sex lives on in this age; therefore, necessarily the guilt should live on also. You are the gateway of the devil; you are the one who unseals the curse of that tree, and you are the first one to turn your back on the divine law; you are the one who persuaded him whom the devil was not capable of corrupting; you easily destroyed the image of God, Adam. Because of what you deserve, that is, death, even the Son of God had to die.” (section I.I, part 2, trans. C.W. Marx). And again with reference to Eve,, "For straightway that impatience conceived of the devil's seed, produced, in the fecundity of malice, anger as her son; and when brought forth, trained him in her own arts." (On Patience 5:15). He died fulminating against the faction that is now regarded as orthodox.
http://www.badnewsaboutchristianity.com/ac0_fathers.htm#tertullian
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