"[4] A Latin translation was made from the original Greek by Rufinus of Aquileia under the title Anulus around 400.
[1][5] A partial Coptic translation was discovered in one of the books of the New Testament apocrypha recovered from the Nag Hammadi library in 1945.
The identification with Pope Xystus II (r. 256–258), current by the time of the Latin and Syriac translations,[1][5] is denied by Jerome, who calls the author Sextus Pythagoreus.
One possible author of the Sentences is Quintus Sextius, a Roman philosopher who combined Stoicism with Pythagoreanism, and who lived in the 1st century BC.
Unlike the Christian sayings gospels, the wisdom comes from a man named Sextus rather than Jesus.