efforts to convert Dutch Jews, gleefully pointed out in 1660 that Paul’s Epistle to the Laodiceans (which Paul had demanded be read in community worship, and so should be considered canonical), appeared to have gone missing altogether – or rather did exist, in a text extant but not acknowledged by the Church. He also drew attention to Jesus Christ’s supposed correspondence with King Abgar of Edessa (see pp. 180–81) – why were these texts outside the Bible, when a trivial letter of Paul’s to Philemon was in?
