# Public 1 Corinthians prints crowded assemblies and a shared cup as a later public-health-adjacent text

Date: 1611

## The fact

KJV 1 Corinthians on gathering and the Lord’s supper, as later readers in epidemics have noted, is a crowding-and-shared-vessel text. Low confidence on ancient R0. Modest path: a canonical assembly form that later churches still crowd.

## Context

Do not write a unique Corinthian outbreak. Do write that assemblies share cups.

[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: New Advent — 1 Corinthians (https://www.newadvent.org/bible/1co001.htm; New Advent).

## Significance

A 1611 supper chapter is not a modern outbreak table.

A 1611 supper chapter is not a modern outbreak table.

## 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

- Infectious-Disease Transmission: https://factrail.ai/drivers/infectious-disease-transmission

## Sources

- https://www.newadvent.org/bible/1co001.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Paul-the-Apostle

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pa-infectious-assembly-as-later