3 Corinthians

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36 THE APOCRYPHAL ACTS Hennecke, Handbuch cu den neutest. Apokryphen, 1904, 358 ff., 388 ff. Schmidt, Acta Pauli, 1904, y2> ff- Harnack, " Untersuchungen ueber den apokryphen Brief- wechsel der Korinther mit dem Apostel Paulus " (in Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wis- senschaften, January 12, 1905). Harnack, "Die apokryphen Briefe des Paulus an die Laodi- cener und Korinther" (in Kleine Texte fuer theolo- gische Vorlesungen und Uebungen, ed. Lietzmann, part 12, Bonn, 1905). Zahn, Einleitung in des Neue Testament, 3d ed. Vol. I (1906), pp. 178, 193, 380, 386. Leipoldt, Geschichte des neutestamentlichen Kanons, I (1907), 213 ff. Bardenhewer, Patrology, p. 11 1 ff . De Bruyne, " Une nouveau manuscript de la 3, lettre de S. Paule aux Corinthiens " in Revue Benedictine, 25 Annee (1908), no. 4. In 1823 Prof. Rinck published at Heidelberg : das Send- schreiben der Korinther an den Apostel Paulus und das dritte Sendschreiben Pauli an die Korinther, for which he perused eight manuscripts. His researches made it clear that the correspondence in the Armenian Bible-manuscripts belonged to the body of the Pauline epistles, i.e., was orig- inally counted in the Armenian Church as belonging to the biblical canon, because it stood as third epistle to the Corin- thians after the second epistle to the Corinthians and before that to the Galatians. From other indications, Rinck also inferred that the reception of the third Corinthian into the Canon belonged to a time when the Armenian version of the Bible was made and that this was due probably to the influence of the Syriac Bible, in which the epistle must have occupied the same position. In the commentary of Ephrasm Syrus 1 on the Pauline epistles, the third Corinthian is '^ Opera Ephrcemi, III, p. 116 ff. Venice, 1836; German translation in Zahn, Kanon, II, 2,595 ff. Vetter, Theolog. Quartalschrift, 1890, p. 627 ff.