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There is no doubt that not a single NT author thought of writing a work that would eventually be included in the canon. Paul couldn't even begin to think of such a thing, since he did not reckon with the church's continuing beyond his own generation. And in the second and third generations of NT authors, their only concern was so to rewrite the old proclamations that they could reach human beings in the new situation.

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