Epistle to the Laodiceans
The Laodizenerbrief or Laodizäerbrief is mentioned in the New Testament, but not of traditional letter of St. Paul to the Christian church in Laodicea ( Laodicea on the Lycus ). In later centuries, various headings appear, who claim to be this letter, or kept it.
Whether Marcion the original letter had known in the 2nd century, can no longer be determined. The traditional in some manuscripts of the Vulgate " Laodizenerbrief " does not work in any case back to the apostles.
The Pauline Laodizenerbrief
In the final section of the Colossians (Col 4,16 EU) assigns to the author, that the community should also refer to the letter " from Laodicea " in Colossae. We are not handed ( Pauline ) Laodizenerbrief. To this end, several possible causes have been discussed.
The mention of Marcion Laodizenerbrief
The Muratorian Fragment ( 7th century; going back to a Greek source end of the 2nd century ) mentions the canon of the early Christian theologian Marcion had the Laodizener contain a letter " and attacks him as a fake, but no one knows whether referred to therein, letter is our [ the Laodizenerbrief in the Vulgate ] identical ". The fake letter was only intended to spread heresy of Marcion. Marcion had developed their own biblical canon, the complete ausklammerte the Old Testament and only a "purified " Gospel (which probably had a certain proximity to the Gospel according to Luke ) and the letters of Paul included. The content of this letter is unknown. Some researchers (eg, Adolf von Harnack ) think it is possible that the font with the one described in the next section Laodizenerbrief in the Vulgate is the same. Others, however, believe that this Scripture should she go back to Marcion or one of his comrades, more Marcionite ideas should contain.
The Laodizenerbrief in the Vulgate
Middle of the 6th century immersed Laodizenerbrief on in some manuscripts of the Itala, and in particular the Vulgate in the Pauline writings. As early as the 4th century Jerome had found the letter had been rejected by everyone ( " Legunt quidam et ad Laodicenses, sed omnibus from exploditur "). This pseudepigraphic letter probably owes its origin to the note in Col. 4:16. Content brings the short letter nothing new compared with the known letters of Paul. He looks like a compilation of different, declining to Pauline letters messages so Gal 2.4 EU; Phil 2,2.12 f EU; 4,6.8 f EU: Thanks for the Christian state of the reader, warning against false teachers, reference to the imprisonment of Paul and exhortations to faithfulness.
Also based in early, still on the Vulgate, German Bible translations appeared on this Laodizenerbrief. Martin Luther recognized this letter in his translation of the Bible as apocryphal and separated him from out of the cannon.
Laodizenerbrief of Jakob Lorber
The Neuoffenbarer Jakob Lorber (1800-1864) published in 1844 the font, the Laodizenerbrief of the Apostle Paul, he claims to have received as revelation.