Severe Letter

Severe Letter

The Severe Letter or Letter of Tears was a letter written to the Corinthians by the Apostle Paul. It is mentioned in 2 Corinthians 2:4: "For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you." This description does not match First Corinthians, so there are two main theories on the Severe Letter:

#The first theory is that the Severe Letter is lost.
#The second theory is that the "Severe Letter" is preserved in 2 Corinthians 10-13. [ [http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/goodspeed/ch05.html THE SECOND LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS] , from "An Introduction to the New Testament", By Edgar J. Goodspeed, 1937] [ [http://catholic-resources.org/Bible/NT_Letters.htm#Edited New Testament Letter Structure] , from [http://catholic-resources.org Catholic Resources] by Felix Just, S.J.]

For more discussion on reconstructing Paul's correspondence with the Corinthians, see Second Epistle to the Corinthians.

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