Eusebius and Early Christian Literature.

The literature we have been discussing did not just happen to be preserved. The various books were obviously collected and used by authors themselves and by their students, and they passed into libraries both private and semi-public. The existence of such collections is explicitly attested by Eusebius and can be inferred from his own writings and from those of his predecessors. Like the New Testament and the Old, early Christian literature consists of a little library of various books assembled on and for various occasions.