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3 Corinthians

3 Corinthians — Pick1909 historical English correspondence

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ACTS OF PAUL 35 B. Paul's Correspondence With the Corin- thians. The discovery of the Acta Pauli in the Coptic has fully confirmed the view expressed by La Croze and Zahn, that the apocryphal correspondence with the Corinthians orig- inally formed a part of the Acta Pauli, together with the Acta Theclae and the "martyrium" of Paul. Zahn, Geschichte des neutest. Kanons, H, p. 592 ff., 606 ff. Harnack, Geschichte dor altchvistlichcn Litcratur, 1, 37 ff. ; n, I p. 493 ff., 506 ff. Vetter, " Der apokryphe dritte Korintherbrief " (in Thcol. Quartalschrift, 1890, 610-639). " Der apokryphe dritte Korintherbrief " (in Literarische Rundschau, 1892, 193-198), and under the same title, Tubingen, 1894, 13-17- " Eine rabbinische Quelle des apokryphen dritten Korinther- brief es " (in Theologische Quartalschrift, 1895, 622- Berger-Carriere, " La correspondence apocryphe de S. Paul et des Corinthiens " (in Revue de theol. et de philos., XXIII (1891); see Harnack in Theologische Liter- aturzeitiing, 1892, 2-9; Zahn in Theolog. Literaturhlatt, 1892, 185-187. Bratke, "Ein zweiter lateinischer Text des apokryphen Briefwechsels zwischen dem Apostel Paulus und den Korinthern" (in Theolog. Literaturzeitung, 1892, 585- 588). Muretow, "Ueber den apokryphen Brief wechsel des Apostels Paulus mit den Korinthern" (in Theolog. Bote, 1896, July-August). Berendts, " Zur Christlogie des apokryphen, 3. Korinther- briefes" (in Abhandliingcn Alexander von Oettingen gewidmet), Munich 1898, 1-28. Ehrhard, Die altchristliche Literatur, 1900, 119 f. Bardenhewer, Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur, 1902, Vol. I, 463 f. Hennecke, Neutestamentliche Apokryphen, 1904, 357 ff-

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Recorded completeness: Complete identified Paul’s Correspondence with the Corinthians section in Pick1909, printed pp35–42 and final continuation footnote on43. Includes historical introduction, letter from Corinth to Paul and third-letter reply attributed to Paul, source Armenian/Coptic/Greek variant notes. Main MartyrdomPaul section on shared p43 is excluded; only exact final correspondence footnote retained. This is the apocryphal correspondence, not canonical1or2Corinthians.. Available reading sections are listed below.

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