who wrote 2 timothy 4?
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 No. 4 Osanna , Benedictus , Agnus Dei et Dona nobis pacem 

contradiction
 There are many similarities between 2 and 3 John . Both follow the format of other personal letters of the era ; in both the author self @-@ identifies as " the Presbyter " , a term which literally means " the elder " ; and both deal with themes of hospitality and conflict within the church . They are also extremely similar in length , probably because they were both written to fit on one papyrus sheet . 

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 Fragment 4 is a " chain @-@ saying " , seek – find – marvel – reign – rest , describing the steps towards salvation , where " rest " equals the state of salvation . The saying is similar to themes found in Jewish Wisdom literature , and the similarity to a saying in the Gospel of Thomas suggests that the text may have been influenced by gnostic Wisdom teaching . 

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 Acts 2 : 1 @-@ 4 : " All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages … " 

entailment
 Subsequent to the closing of the canon , the gospel is mentioned in a homily " On the Virgin Mary " attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem in a collection of apocryphal stories believed to have been written in Coptic in the first half of the 6th century . The author ( known to scholars as Pseudo @-@ Cyril ) refers to the Gospel of the Hebrews in a polemical dialogue between a monk and Cyril over the nature of Mary , whom the monk contends was a divine Power sent from heaven . Cyril condemns the monk 's teaching as a heresy , which the author attributes to Carpocrates , Satornilus , and Ebionites . Not all later mentions of the gospel were polemical ; Bede ( c . 673 – 735 ) , after listing some apocryphal gospels rejected by the Church , includes the Gospel of the Hebrews among the " ecclesiastical histories " and refers to its usage by Jerome . 
