ANTILEGOMENA (avnXeyo va, contradicted or disputed)  , an epithet used by the early Christian writers to denote those books of the New Testament which, although sometimes publicly read in the churches, were not for a considerable time admitted to be genuine, or received into the canon of Scripture . They were thus contrasted with the Homologoumena, or universally acknowledged writings . Eusebius (Hist . Ecci. iii . 25) appliesthe term Antilegomena to the Epistle of James, the Epistle of Jude, 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, the Acts of Paul, the Shepherd of Hermas, the Teaching of the Apostles, the Apocalypse of John, and the Gospel according to the Hebrews . In later usage it describes those o the New Testament books which have obtained a doubtful place in the Canon . These are the Epistles of James and Jude, 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, the Apocalypse of John, and the Epistle to the Hebrews .