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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
...We have one letter from Polycarp. The man lived 86 years and was a pupil of the Apostle John. Do you think that in those 86 years he might have written more than one letter? Do you think in those 86 years which brought him into the middle of the second century that someone didn't ask him: " Hey Poly which of these letters did John consider scripture and which did he reject?"...
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I very seriously doubt that ANYONE in the second cent. posed such a question. The fact of the matter is that "Scripture" was still a very loosely defined concept, and that the questions of what was "in" and what was "out" was not something that anyone took very seriously. These were later issues that didn't receive any attention in Polycarp's day.