Abstract
The final portion of46 (Pauline letters: c. 200 AD) is lost. Standard works assert that the undamaged papyrus did not contain the Pastoral Epistles, and this has been taken as evidence for the existence of a Pauline corpus without the Pastorals. However, in the final third of the extant manuscript, the scribe compresses his writing substantially (by up to 50%). Different explanations of this phenomenon are discussed: the most likely being that the scribe always intended to include the Pastorals, but simply miscalculated the space required.46 cannot be used as evidence for a Pauline corpus omitting the Pastorals.
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