# Late-fourth-century Roman and other canon lists lock a Pauline corpus as scripture

Date: 382

## The fact

Later Vatican and encyclopedia accounts of Damasus/Carthage-era lists treat a closed Pauline corpus as church law. The dated public carrier is that later canon-history cluster around a received 382 Roman heading. Closing a canon can police rival letters. He did not sit in 382.

## Context

Canon also preserves (access rows).

[Paul the Apostle](/people/paul-the-apostle) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official Bible-society, Vatican, or library pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Holy See — New American Bible index (https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/_INDEX.HTM; Holy See / vatican.va).

## Significance

A 4th-century canon heading as later told is not a 50s autograph table of contents.

A 4th-century canon heading as later told is not a 50s autograph table of contents.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Paul the Apostle: https://factrail.ai/people/paul-the-apostle

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## Sources

- https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/_INDEX.HTM
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Paul-the-Apostle

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pa-fourth-century-canon-lock