THIRD EPISTLE TO CORINTHIANS

3 CORINTIANS(65AD)

Introduction

The textual content of third Corinthians claims to be two letters, one written to Paul from the elders at Corinth inquiring for assist in managing False teacher that had come into Corinth and had commenced teaching heretical doctrines. The second one is Paul’s reaction to the elders detailing why the teachings taught by them are incorrect.

The Paul totally wrote Four Epistle to Corinthians(All the Early church Father Agree).Today we know of only 2 Epistle to Corinthians but the Other 2 Epistles are Reffered in The 2 Epistles we Know of today. If we Check the Epistle in Order the lost Epistle is first Corinthians.

Paul writes to Corinth “not to accompany with the immoral” (1 Corinthians 5:9). 

Then Corinth writes to Paul wondering how marriage and celibacy performs into immorality and asks different questions about marriage and celibacy in 1 Corinthians 7:1, idols in 1 Corinthians 8:1, and non secular presents in 1 Corinthians 12:1.

 Paul wrote 1 Corinthians in response to this letter, in which he tells them to excommunicate the immoral guy. He answers their questions and offers them more information about the Christian existence.

Paul visited Corinth in sorrow. Afterwards he wrote 1 Corinthians to them (2 Corinthians 2:3; Acts 18). First Corinthians made Corinth sorrowful closer to repentance (2 Corinthians 7:8). 

Paul then received phrase that the immoral man repented. Paul then wrote 2 Corinthians in reaction to hearing from them, wherein he warns of false instructors in Corinth (2 Corinthians eleven). 

A first-rate part of their false teaching changed into denying the bodily resurrection (2 Corinthians 15). If three Corinthians is to be believed, a church father named Thenone acquired a revelation from the Lord that Paul might soon be released from his jail in Rome (3 Corinthians 1:8). See Acts 28:30-31 for the biblical reference to Paul’s two year stay in Rome. An historic report called the Muratorian Canon Fragment, abbreviated MCF, corroborates Paul being freed from Rome and finally visiting to Spain. Paul wrote to Corinth from prison (3 Corinthians 2:35). This could be right before his release from his first Roman imprisonment.

Discovery

Third Corinthians is widely recognized inside the East, mainly in the Armenian Church. It has been covered in the Armenian New testament canon because at least the third century Ad. Even today one may additionally find an Armenian Bible containing Three letters Corinthians; despite the fact that, since the 19th century, there had been Armenian Bibles published without third epistle to Corinthians. The most popular Armenian Bible is referred to as the Zohrabian Bible. The Zohrabian Bible was published in advert 1805 and nonetheless consists of third Corinthians.

Third epistle to Corinthians isn't currently covered inside the Bible of the Syrian Orthodox Church; however there are commentaries from Ephraem the Syrian and Aphraat the Syrian on all the books of the new testament, along with third Corinthians, where they talk to the textual content as Scripture. This suggests that within the early days of the Syrian Church it became covered of their canon as properly.

The earliest recognised manuscript containing third Corinthians is an Armenian one, abbreviated S. Because it became observed in Smyrna, Turkey. Archbishop James Ussher, writer of Annals of the arena, used this manuscript to put up his own translation of third Corinthians along with his observation in  1644 AD. His paintings was entitled Polycarpianam Epistolarum Ignatianarum Sylloge Annotationum.

Muratorian Fragment

But he
writes twice for the sake of correction to
the Corinthians(1&4) and to the Thessalonians

4 Corinthians-It is the 2 Corinthians we know today

This letter tells us about 2 Corrupt Men’s who corrupts corinth church. Paul Reffer this letter as written in tears.

How can we know it’s forgery?

This isn’t an Forgery because During First 3 Century the main heresies were False teaching saying Jesus is not Christ and many other things.The work of Forgeries is writing Falsehood about Christianity ,but this Epistle is against False teaching it even Gives prophecy that False arises during end times.

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Content

This is an small Epistle against heresies,First part contains Epistle of corinth to Paul and secondly Paul to corinth

Conclusion-This book is authentic because it speaks against Gnostics and could be read

Text

3 Corinthians Text With Commentary

from the Acts of Paul

Epilogue

1.7. … prayed that a messenger be sent to Philippi. For the Corinthians were in great trouble concerning Paul, that he would depart out of the world, before it was time. For there were certain men come to Corinth, Simon and Cleobius, saying: There is no resurrection of the flesh, but that of the spirit only: and that the body of man is not the creation of God; and also concerning the world, that God did not create it, and that God know not the world, and saying Christ Jesus was not crucified, but it was an appearance (i.e. but only in appearance), and that lie was not born of Mary, nor of the seed of David. And in a word, there were many things which they had taught in Corinth, deceiving many other men, (and deceiving also) themselves. When therefore the Corinthians heard that Paul was at Philippi, they sent a letter unto Paul to Macedonia by Threptus and Eutychus the deacons. And the letter was after this manner.

Letter from Corinth to Paul

Greetings

I. 1 Stephanus and the presbyters who are with him, Daphnus, Eubulus, Theophilus and Xenon, to Paul their brother in the Lord, greeting.

False teachers(50AD)/Corrupt Men

Two men have come to Corinth, Simon and Cleobius, who pervert the faith of many through pernicious words we want you to respond to. 

Commentary

Simon is Reffered as Simon Magus,The father of False teachers for more details see False teacher, Cleobius may be his Assistance.

3. We have never heard such things from you or the other apostles. What ever you and the other apostles teach we will believe. 

4. What ever you and the other apostles teach we will believe. 

5. The Lord has shown mercy to us, since you are still alive we wish to hear from you again. Please do write or come to us. We believe, what has been revealed to Theonoe, that the Lord delivered you out of the hand of the lawless one.

Commentary

The teaching Corrupted badly the Corinth church Even Paul wrote this letter in tears.

False  teachings

What they teach is as follows:

1. We must not appeal to the prophets
2. God is not Almighty
3. There is no resurrection of the flesh
4. Creation is not God’s work
5.The Lord did not come in the flesh
6. The Lord was not born of Mary
7. The world is not of God but the Angels

These were False teaching mentioned above

Request

16. So brother, hurry and come here, that the church here in Corinth may remain pure, and the foolishness of these men may be made known to all. Farewell in the Lord.

Epilogue

II. 1 The deacons Threptus and Eutyches brought the letter unto Philippi, 2 so that Paul received it, being in bonds because of Stratonice the wife of Apollophanes, AND HE FORGAT HIS BONDS, and was sore afflicted, 3 and cried out, saying: It were better for me to die and to be with the Lord, than to continue in the flesh and to hear such things AND THE CALAMITIES OF FALSE DOCTRINE, so that trouble com upon trouble. 4 And over and above this so great affliction I am in bonds and behold these evils whereby the devices of Satan are accomplished. (4 Harnack: may not the priests (intrigues) of Satan anticipate me while (or after) I suffer (have suffered) fetters for the sake (?) of men.) 5 Paul therefore, in great affliction, wrote a letter, answering thus:

Greetings

III.1 Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, to the brothers in Corinth, greeting!

Do not listen to Wicked men

Since I am in prison, I am not surprised that the teachings of the evil one are quickly gaining ground.  

My Lord Jesus Christ will quickly come, since he is rejected by those who falsify His words.

[It occurs in End time]

Doctrine to be saved

4. I delivered to you from the beginning what I received from the apostles who were before me, who were at all times together with the Lord Jesus Christ.

 5. Our Lord Jesus Christ was born of Mary of the seed of David. The Holy Spirit was sent from Heaven by the Father into her, 

6. that he might come into this world to redeem all flesh through his own flesh, and that he might raise up from the dead we who are fleshly, just as He has shown Himself as our example. 

7 . Since man was molded by his Father, man was sought for when he was lost, that he might be quickened by adoption into sonship.

8. The almighty God, who made heaven and earth, first sent the prophets to the Jews, that they might turn from their sins; for he had determined how to save the house of Israel, therefore he sent a portion of the spirit of Christ into the prophets, who at many times proclaimed the faultless worship of God.

9. But since the prince who was unrighteous wished to be God, he laid hands on them and killed them, and so all the flesh of men were bound to passions. 

10. But God, the almighty, who is righteous and would not repudiate his own creation, sent the Holy Spirit to Mary the Galilean, who believed with all her heart, and she received the Holy Spirit into her womb that Jesus might enter the world, in order that the evil one might be conquered by the same flesh which he held sway, and be convinced that he was not God.

11.For by his own body Jesus Christ saved all flesh and brought it to eternal life through faith, that he might present a temple of righteousness in his own body, through whom we are redeemed.
12. These are not children of righteousness but of wrath, who reject the providence of God, saying that heaven and earth and all that is in them are not the works of the Father. 
13.They are themselves therefore children of wrath, for they have the accursed faith of the serpent.
14. From them turn away, and flee from there teaching! For you are not sons of disobedience but of the church most dearly beloved.
15. This is why the time of the resurrection is proclaimed.
As for those who tell you there is no resurrection of the flesh, for them there is no resurrection, who do not believe in Him who has risen.
16. You men of Corinth must understand that they don’t know about the sowing of wheat or other seeds.
17. That they are cast naked to the ground and when they have perished below and are raised again by the will of God in a body and clothed. The body is not only raised up, but abundantly blessed. 
18. And consider not only the seeds, but nobler bodies.
19. You know how Jonah the son of Amathios, when he would not preach in Nineveh but fled, was swallowed by a whale and after three days and three nights God heard Jonah’s prayer out of the deepest hell, and no part of him was corrupted, not even an eyelid. 
20. How much more, you of so little faith, will he raise up you who have believed in Christ Jesus, as he himself rose up? 
21. And if, when a corpse was thrown by the children of Israel on the bones of the prophet Elisha, the man’s body rose up, so you also who have been cast upon the body and bones and spirit of the Lord will rise up on that day with your flesh whole.
But if you receive anything else, do not cause me trouble;
22. for I have these fetters on my hands that I may gain Christ, and his marks on my body that I may attain to the resurrection form the dead. And whoever abides by the rule which he received by the prophets and the holy Gospel, he shall receive a reward and when he has risen form the dead shall obtain eternal life.
23.  But to him that turns aside form them - there is fire with him and those who go before him in the way, since they are men without God, a generation of vipers; from these turn away in the power of the Lord
May peace, grace and love be with you. Amen.


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