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With the exception of the Petrine epistles, both of which may be pseudepigrapha, the seven catholic epistles were added to the New Testament canon because early church fathers attributed the anonymous epistles to important people, and attributed the epistles written by people with the same name as important people to those important people.
Various early Christian writers [broken anchor] wrote gospels and other books, some of which were canonized as the New Testament canon developed.The Apostolic Fathers were prominent writers who are traditionally understood to have met and learned from Jesus's personal disciples.
The First Epistle of John stands out from the others due to its form, but they're united by language, style, contents, themes, and worldview. [9] The Second and Third Epistles of John are composed as regular greco-roman letters, with greetings and endings, while the First Epistle of John lacks such characteristic markings and instead resembles a sermon or an exhoratory speech.
The Pauline epistles are usually placed between the Acts of the Apostles and the catholic epistles (also called the general epistles) in modern editions. Most Greek manuscripts place the general epistles first, [8] and a few minuscules (175, 325, 336, and 1424) place the Pauline epistles at the end of the New Testament.
It is written in the Mrglovani script in one column in black ink, while the titles and special places are written in red ink. The size of the text is 12X7 cm. Page contains 25-26 lines. The manuscript begins with the Acts of the Apostles (1r-67v), then comes Catholic Epistles (67v-98v) and the last is the Letters of Paul(100r-228v).
The epistle genre of letter-writing was common in ancient Egypt as part of the scribal-school writing curriculum. The letters in the New Testament from Apostles to Christians are usually referred to as epistles. Those traditionally attributed to Paul are known as Pauline epistles and the others as catholic (i.e., "general") epistles.
According to tradition, the Apostle Paul wrote the letter while he was in prison in Rome (around AD 62). This would be about the same time as the Epistle to the Colossians (which in many points it resembles) and the Epistle to Philemon. However, many critical scholars have questioned the authorship of the letter and suggest that it may have ...
Polycarp is known to have died around 155–167, so this would seem to set an upper limit for the dating of the pastoral epistles. Irenaeus explicitly references the epistles to Timothy in his anti-Gnostic treatise Against Heresies, written c. 180. [22]