SPURIOUSNESS • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Spuriousness

... facts and the doctrines of Christianity, and in which the last word belongs not to the theologian, but to the philologist. No one would say that it makes no difference if Mark xvi. 9-20 is omitted or not; no one would declare that the authenticity or spuriousness of the section on the adulteress (John vii. 53-viii. 11) was entirely indifferent. When we consider what contention there has been over the seventh verse of the fifth chapter of the first Epistle of John, and how ...

— The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour • Friedrich Max Mueller