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The Church Fathers · c. 160–190
Third Corinthians
Anonymous
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What it is
A letter from the Corinthians reporting two teachers who deny the resurrection of the flesh, and Paul's reply insisting on it from the seed sown in the ground and the bones of Elisha that raised a dead man on contact.
Why it lasted
Detached from the Acts of Paul and read as scripture in the Armenian and Syriac churches for centuries — the clearest case of a book entering one canon while being rejected by another.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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