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Who Wrote What, and Who was Simon The Enemy?
You only have to mention the name Paul and as he is mentioned in the last few posts, I thought I would add to the discussions! However, this time I am letting the Christian scholarship say it for me!
Christians from the dawn of Christianity have been mesmerized by Paul through indoctrination from a church who saw fit to include the epistle supposedly written by him, or were they? Yet, for nearly 200-years biblical scholars say that between the epistles there are four Paul’s? However, what they all agree on, is that to the Jerusalem congregation, Paul is the false prophet, the enemy whose alias is Simon (Magus). See file picture from the late German biblical scholar Han-Joachim Schoeps, page 51 of his work Jewish-Christianity.
In Roman 16 where Paul is telling the Romans Gentile congregation, to assist and aid his disciples. He first mentions the women Phebe the Deacon, Priscilla, Aquila then he goes on to Mary and Junia. Then Paul goes on to the men with some being his friends! Verse 12 more women are named Tryphena, Tryphosa, and Persis then on to more men going on and on. By verse 21, we read about some more of his coworkers—Timotheus, Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater his fellow Jews. However, the very next verse is a bombshell! I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord. [Romans 16:22]
So, we find that Paul did not write Romans, because a man named Tertius wrote it! If you think that Tersius was alone, in writing you would be wrong! As there were other amanuenses such as Tychicus and Onesimus that wrote for Paul and probably others. See Biblehub link under the heading Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible https://biblehub.com/commentaries/colossians/4-18.htm
Also, one can add the amanuensis Timotheus.” In our oldest Pauline manuscripts (mss).
The salutation by the hand of me Paul!
Here he takes the pen from the amanuensis (see Romans 16:22), and writes the final words in autograph.—In 2 Thessalonians 3:17 (“so I write”) this is evidently done to warrant the authenticity of the letter. And see another reason, Philemon 1:19. But obviously, it might be done habitually at the close of Epistles, for reasons only of care and affection; they would always value “his own hand.”—The “script” of St Paul seems to have been large and laboured; see Galatians 6:11; where render “in what large letters I have written.” (He seems to have written that Epistle all in autograph.) Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges [Ibid Colossians 4-18]
Pauls large autograph can be several things, He can have poor eyesight, not a scholar in Greek, illiterate, but one thing—the main epistles were not done, in his hand. Although he may have dictated, the amanuensis certainly put his mark upon the epistles, probably without Paul.
But be nice especially to me! Please comment and have your say?
Keep safe!
Cofion
Jero Jones
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