Hotema notes that this passage was not quoted by any Church father up to the 15th century, although the passage would have been very useful to them in their work; and that the passage refers to the Christians in Rome being a multitude, while at that time the Christian congregation in Rome would actually have been very small.
Hotema指出，在15世纪之前，没有任何教父会引用这个段落，虽然这段文字可能对他们的作品非常有帮助；而且，这段文字提到罗马基督徒数量众多，而当时罗马基督教会实际上会很小。