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A collection of Paul's letters circulated separately from other early Christian writings and later became part of the New Testament. When the canon was established, the gospels and Paul's letters were the core of what would become the New Testament. [27] [page needed]
Despite the attributed title "1 Corinthians", this letter was not the first written by Paul to the church in Corinth, only the first canonical letter. 1 Corinthians is the second known letter of four from Paul to the church in Corinth, as evidenced by Paul's mention of his previous letter in 1 Corinthians 5:9. [26]
The closest, Romans, has 3 out of 581 sentences of such length. E. J. Goodspeed, [36] and C. L. Mitton [37] argued the style was unlike Paul's other works. Many words in the letter are not in the "undisputed" epistles. However, still, some scholars do not find the style of Ephesians to be unlike Paul's authentic letters. [38]
1 Thessalonians does not focus on justification by faith or questions of Jewish–Gentile relations, themes that are covered in all other letters. Because of this, some scholars see this as an indication that this letter was written before the Epistle to the Galatians, where Paul's positions on these matters were formed and elucidated. [3]
Moody Smith, Jr. showed that in Romans 1:17, by exegesis of Galatians 3:11 (also quoting Habakkuk 2:4), Paul took the ek pisteos with the verb zesetai not by the subject of the sentence, ho dikaios. [29] This is supported by Qumran interpretation of the text, as well as Paul's contemporaries and more recent commentators, such as Lightfoot. [30]
British Library Ms. 14470, containing the four Gospels, Paul's Letters, Acts, James, 1 Peter, and 1 John, dating from the 5th/6th century. [12] British Library Ms. 14479, containing Paul's Letters, prepared in Edessa in 534, is the earliest dated manuscript. Written in elegant Syriac alphabet, with vowels added by a later hand.
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Scholars have increasingly questioned Paul's authorship and attributed the letter to an early follower instead, but others still defend it as authentic. [3] If Paul was the author, he probably used an amanuensis, or secretary, in writing the letter (Col 4:18), [4] possibly Timothy. [5] The original text was written in Koine Greek.