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The only evidence that could exist for Paul having dictated letters to a secretary would be an original manuscript, so that we could examine the handwriting. Since no such manuscript exists, we can not know whether he wrote or dictated his letters. In any case, this would not matter. If the supposed secretary wrote the letters in the same words as used by Paul, then those letters are the work of Paul.

Nor would the existence of a secretary suddenly validate the pseudo-Pauline letters. The reasons that scholars have recognised them as having been written much later than Paul and very much by different authors, has nothing to do with handwriting variations (which are unknown). The evidence for pseudo-Pauline epistles could not be explained away as a secretary taking minor liberties with the words Paul dictated.

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