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Third Letter to the Corinthians (Correspondence of Paul and the Corinthians)

Epistula tertia ad Corinthios

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Contents

The Laon recension (a second Latin version) and the Coptic and Armenian witnesses are not staged.

  1. 1The Corinthian elders write to Paul that two teachers, Simon and Cleobius, deny the prophets, the resurrection of the flesh, God's creation of man and the world, and Christ's coming in the flesh and birth from Mary, and they ask him to come.
  2. 2Paul replies that he handed on what he received: Christ was truly born of Mary by the Holy Spirit to save the flesh, God made man and the world, and the flesh will rise, as seeds, Jonah, the dead man laid on Elisha's bones and the widow's son show.

About this work

Author
Anonymous
Attribution
pseudonymous · Anonymous; written in the name of Paul and part of the Acts of Paul (a presbyter in Asia, per Tertullian, Bapt. 17). Not part of the 66-book canon; accepted by the Syrian and Armenian churches for a time.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Anonymous or pseudonymous work read and used in the church of its time.
Early use as Scripture
Read as Scripture in the Syriac and Armenian churches for a time; not in the Latin canon.
Date
ca. 150-200 (approximate) · Part of the Acts of Paul (ca. 150-200); written in Greek, probably in Asia Minor; the Latin text staged is a translation of the Syriac-attested original, from the Milan manuscript.
Written at
unknown, Asia Minor (probable) (approximate)
Language
Latin
Genre
letter
Reference system
chapter 1 = the Corinthians' letter to Paul, chapter 2 = Paul's reply (verse numbers as in Vetter)
SBL abbreviation
3 Cor.Not yet checked
Clavis
CANT/CPG number not yet checked
Text from
Paul Vetter, Der apokryphe dritte Korintherbrief neu übersetzt und nach seinem Ursprunge untersucht (Vienna: Mechitharisten-Buchhandlung, 1894), 58-64 (Milan Latin text after Carrière-Berger and Harnack) (Printed edition in the public domain; Tesseract OCR of a public-domain scan (Internet Archive))