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Hi! We are here now to answer a question 
sent by a brother regarding the First Epistle 
to the Corinthians,

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because I said that we have access to two 
epistles, so he asked me:

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"Pastor, are there any others to the Corinthians?"

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Well, the truth is that there is!

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We will see this here in the First Epistle 
to the Corinthians, in which the apostle 
Paul say, in chapter 5, verse 9:

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"I wrote to you in a letter not to company 
with fornicators:".

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“I wrote to you in a letter (...)”? Now, 
in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, 
Paul is saying that he had already sent a 
letter to them, writing about these things.

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Therefore, the First Epistle to the Corinthians 
is not the first letter that Paul wrote to 
the Corinthians, but the first letter that 
we have access to among those that he wrote 
to the Corinthians.

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So there is at least one first letter to 
the Corinthians, prior to the one we call 
the "First Epistle to the Corinthians".

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So, [what we know as] "First Epistle to the 
Corinthians" would be, [at least], a second 
letter,

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and the "Second Epistle to the Corinthians" 
would actually be a third letter, okay ?!

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So it is clear that we do not have access 
to that first letter to the Corinthians [mentioned 
in 1Co 5: 9], so we call the [letter that 
we have access] "First Epistle to the Corinthians", 
ok?!

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The same thing happens with another epistle.

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The Epistle to the Laodiceans, for when the 
apostle Paul writes to the Colossians, he 
says in chapter 4, verse 16:

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"And when this letter is read among you, 
cause that it be read also in the church 
of the Laodiceans; and that you likewise 
read the letter from Laodicea".

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So he is saying that when the letter is read 
to the Colossians, it must be taken to be 
read also to the Laodiceans,

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and the letter sent to the Laodiceans must 
be read to the Colossians as well.

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So today we do not have access to the epistle 
to the Laodiceans, but Paul mentions this 
letter in his letter to the Colossians, ok?!

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Now, many people ask the question, "Pastor, 
why didn't those seven books called 'Deuterocanonicals' 
get into the Evangelical Bible?"

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That is, the books of the second canon, which 
are in the Septuagint and are part of the 
Catholic Bible, but are not in the Evangelical 
Bible.

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During the reform they used the same criteria 
used in the Council of Jamnia, which was 
a council made by Jews

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in which they determined the validity of 
the Old Testament (called “Tanakh”, already 
explained in our previous class, known as 
the Hebrew Bible),

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and they adopted some criteria to determine 
what would be integrated into the Tanakh.

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Well, their first criteria was that the books 
should be written entirely in Hebrew, and 
those seven books were not originally written 
in Hebrew, ok?!

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The second criterion was that they should 
have been originally written within the Palestinian 
territory,

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and the third criterion was that the books 
should have been written until the return 
from exile in Babylon, and thus, until the 
time of Ezra.

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There is still a fourth criterion: these 
books should be completely in agreement with 
the Pentateuch (Torah), ok?!

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Well, the Council of Jamnia adopted an important 
criterion: the Hebrew language, which is 
important for a Jew.

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But the original purpose of this council 
is somewhat doubtful, since they did this 
by giving up of these seven books in the 
Septuagint,

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which were used in the time of the apostles, 
and even the Jews of Christ's time used the 
Septuagint, but today they no longer use 
it .

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Well, why don't they use it and what was 
the purpose of adopting that criterion during 
the Jamnia Council?

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In part, [the goal] was simply to cancel 
the apostolic writings, which were written 
in Greek.

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Thus, although it was necessary to give up 
seven books of the Septuagint, which was 
translated by Jews (70 or 72 Jews), who were 
Hebrew language scholars,

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into Greek, being well recognized by the 
Jews in the past, but they had a purpose:

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if books written in Greek were disregarded, 
Jews would not consider apostolic writings 
written in Greek, do you understand?

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So, I don't have the ability to go there 
and say: "they were right" or "they were 
wrong",

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but I have one observation to make, which 
is this: if they "cancel" all the Greek writings, 
the New Testament would lose all its value.

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That was, let's say, a very smart strategy.

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We have other lost books here. There are 
several, I did not put them all because it 
wouldn’t even fit here [on the whiteboard].

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But among the lost books that we see being 
mentioned in the Bible are:

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the “book of Jasher”, you will find the reference 
in Joshua 10:13, in 2 Samuel 1:18, and in 
Psalm 69:28, where they talk about the “book 
of Jasher”.

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These are books that are not available for 
us today, maybe you can find a version, but 
we cannot certify that it is really the original 
version,

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because we do not have many copies, like 
the entire New Testament, of the old documents, 
has many copies, so it's extremely reliable, 
ok?!

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Now, the “book of the chronicles of the kings 
of Israel”, the Bible mentions it in several 
passages, there would also difficult for 
me [write them all here],

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so I wrote some of them: 1 Kgs 14:19; 15:31 
and 1 Chr 9: 1, talk about the “book of the 
chronicles of the kings of Israel”, ok?!

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Soon afterwards it also mentions the “book 
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah”,

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here [book of the chronicles of the kings 
of Israel] is about the Northern Kingdom 
(house of Israel), and the "book of the chronicles 
of the kings of Judah" is about the Southern 
Kingdom (house of Judah).

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In 1 Kings 14:29; 15:23; 16:19 the “Book 
of the History of the Kings of Judah” is 
mentioned.

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There is also a reference to a book, which 
could be a reference to these two books or 
to a third book,  referred to as the "book 
of the kings of Judah and Israel", you can 
find this in 2Chr 16:11 and 35:27.

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We have yet another book mentioned in the 
Bible which is the “book of Shemaiah the 
prophet", also the “book of Iddo the seer” 
that is in the "Genealogies”.

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Genealogy is very important in the Bible, 
but why is it very important?

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Well, at that time there was no registry 
office, and you needed to know which family 
you belonged to, so in that sense the book 
of Genealogies is extremely important.

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After all, the Bible begins by registering 
in Genesis 5:1 the book of Genealogy of Adam,

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that is, that group called “Law” (Genesis, 
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) 
is made of several portions that Moses put 
together

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and he had access to the book that he probably 
wrote himself, which is the “book of Genealogy 
of Adam”, and he inserted it in what we know 
as Genesis, ok?!

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So the “book of Shemaiah the prophet", the 
“book of Iddo the seer” and "Genealogies” 
are mentioned in 2Ch [15:25],

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but this book will be used in Ed 2:62 and 
Ne 7:64, to find out whether the people who 
returned from exile in Babylon were fit, 
for example, to the priesthood.

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So I hope you enjoyed and understood this 
study.

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May God bless the lives of each of one of 
you and may you continue to share this Bible 
study with other brothers and sisters.

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I thank you, God bless, pray for us and God 
with us always, Emmanuel, Jesus Christ in 
our hearts, amen?! The Peace...