“We have divided this work into twenty-four words and seventy-two chapters according to the tripartite being - body, soul and spirit, the twenty-four elders, which, as will be confirmed below, denote the fullness of those who have pleased God from the beginning to the end of the age. We consider further discussions about this Divinely inspired book to be completely unnecessary, because its authenticity was testified by Blessed Gregory the Theologian and Cyril and even the most ancient: Papias, Irenaeus, Methodius and Hippolytus. Having borrowed from them the reason why in some places their reasoning led, we also began this work. And you, man of God, reward with your prayers the work, which, as I think, greatly contributes to contrition through a reminder of rewards for the righteous and punishments for sinners.” Saint Andrew of Caesarea