Catholic Word of the Day: LETTERS TO THE CORINTHIANS, 08-23-10

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LETTERS TO THE CORINTHIANS

Two letters of St. Paul written from Ephesus to his converts at Corinth. The first was occasioned by certain problems that Paul sought to resolve. He therefore spoke of the need for unity (1:10-4:21), sins against chastity (5:1-6:20), marriage and sacrifices to idols (7:1-11:1), Christian worship and the gifts (11:2-14:40), the hymn on charity (13), the resurrection of the dead (15:1-58). In the second letter, St. Paul confronts his enemies at Corinth. He defends his apostolate, recounts the achievements God worked through him in spite of his own weakness and incompetence, asks funds for the Christians in Jerusalem, and once again defends his call as an Apostle and the extraordinary gifts the Lord conferred on him. It is very probable that St. Paul wrote four letters to the Corinthians, of which only two are extant.

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Note that four letters were written by St. Paul to the Corinthians.

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Our priest has read the third letter to the Corinthians or parts of it. He says that St. Paul really reads the riot act to them.

The Corinthians didn’t even want to pass it around.

Anyone know about the fourth letter?

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Gift of Integrity	Nuncio	Epigonation
Virtue of Hope	Magic	End of the World
Apostasy (ecclesiastical)	Gerasenes	Spouse (Bride) of Christ
Funeral Rites	Infused Contemplation	Shalom
Sacramental	Miracles of Christ	Moral Theology
Eviternity	Sinai	Saul
La Divina Commedia	Saint-Anne-D-Beaupre	Royal Coronation
Bishop	Scandal of the Weak	Spiritual Rebirth
Biretta	The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.	Savior
Iesus Hominum Salvator	Episcopate	Chaldean Rite
Antecedent Grace	Vincentian Canon	Cardinal Deacon
Clergy	Diocesan Synod	Pacifism
Reformation Dogma	Letters to the Corinthians

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You can find the “third epistle to the Corinthians” on the web and read it for yourself. It is considered to have been written about 170 AD, a pseudo-Paul writing.

The alleged letter from the Corinthians to Paul is also available at the same site:

http://www.christian-history.org/3rd-corinthians.html