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3 xi. 22f.
4 xi. 4.
5 xi. 1, 16ff.; xii. 1,6, 11.
6 xi. 13ff.
7 This so-called ‘Four Chapters Hypothesis’ was founded by Hausrath, A., Der Vierkapitelbrief des Paulus an die Korinther (1870),Google Scholar accepted and improved by many scholars. Compare the report (until 1924) about the earlier representatives (especially Schmiedel, P., Kennedy, J. C., Moffat, J., Lake, K., Plummer, A., etc.) in Windisch, H., Der zweite Korintherbrief (1924), PP. 12ff.Google Scholar From out the modern literature are named here: Strachan, R. H., The Epistle II of Paul to the Corinthians (1935);Google ScholarNock, A. D., Paulus (1940);Google ScholarManson, T. W., ‘St Paul in Ephesus, (3) The Corinthian Correspondence’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 16 (1940/1941), PP. 101 f., 331 ff.;Google ScholarKnox, W. L., The Acts of the Apostles (1948), p. 61;Google ScholarDodd, C. H., New Testament Studies (1954), pp. 85 ff.;Google ScholarHéring, J., La seconde épître de saint Paul mix Corinthiens (1958), pp. 11 ff.;Google ScholarSchmithals, W., Die Gnosis in Korinth (1956), pp. 18 ff.Google Scholar
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1 This is not the only example. Also the other passages quoted already from the Epistles of Jude and II Peter confirm what we have said. As long since known, II Peter uses the Epistle ofJude as his ‘literarische Vorlage’ and builds Out the given text in a similar way into one single apocalypse.
2 I Tim. iv. 1 ff.; II Tim. iii. 1ff.