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Old 10-22-2011, 04:26 PM   #1
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Default I Figured Out Why the Muratorian Canon Lists 1 Corinthians First in the Canon

And I did it while driving home from Target no less. The answer is quite simple. All the letters are currently listed in order of length, Romans being the longest so it is first in the 'Pauline letter section' (= Apostolikon). The Muratorian canon is a Roman letter reflecting the practices and beliefs of the Roman Church. All evidence points to the early Roman Church only possessing a 14 chapter letter to the Romans (i.e. with chapters 15 and 16 not present). The only early witnesses for these chapters in Romans are Alexandrians (Clement and Origen). If the idea was that you had to order letters by length, a fourteen chapter Romans would be shorter than the current 1 Corinthians. As such the Muratorian canon lists 1 Corinthians before Romans.

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No apparently I should stick to bargain hunting. That can't be the explanation. The order of the epistles there places Romans last which seems to contradict my assumptions:

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To the Corinthians first, to the Ephesians second, to the Philippians third, to the Colossians fourth, to the Galatians fifth, to the Thessalonians sixth, to the Romans seventh
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Must be the potassium in them there bananas that saved your thinking processes from certain ruin.

Search out earlier posts that include David Trobisch for analysis of letters based on length.

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No apparently I should stick to bargain hunting. That can't be the explanation. The order of the epistles there places Romans last which seems to contradict my assumptions:

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To the Corinthians first, to the Ephesians second, to the Philippians third, to the Colossians fourth, to the Galatians fifth, to the Thessalonians sixth, to the Romans seventh
Back to the drawing board I guess ...
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Old 10-26-2011, 05:29 AM   #4
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Just a though. 1 Corinthians was the first Pauliune epistle, and it appeared in the early second century in opposition to the Cerinthians.

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