Many epistles written by St. Paul end with a brief note about where or by whom it was written. What is the correct term for such a note?

Well, there are five Pauline epistles that include what has been termed Paul's "personal signature." The example in 1 Corinthians 16:21 reads: "I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand."

The closest I can come to a term for this would be the Latin "manu propria," though in Middles Ages, the abbreviation M.P. was actually used to authenticate a letter or other document. Its sense was more or less "Yes, this really did come from me."



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_propria

Paul indicates in 1 Corinthians that it was he who actually penned the letter it was not dictated by him to a scribe.

That isn't what I mean. Taking the example of 1 Corinthians for instance, after verse 24 there is a sentence added which states "The first epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi ....... etc".
What is the correct terminology for such a sentence?

Verse 24 in what chapter?

And why would Paul be saying "The first epistle to the Corinthians..."? How could he know that they would be a second?

All James Strong calls them in his Exhaustive Concordance is "subscript." Seems like somewhere sometime I heard another word for them, though. They're not exactly glosses, and not commentaries, either, and are quite ancient, though not original.

Many Bibles do not include them. Cambridge University Press usually or always does.

Paul did not title his letters, but started them out with greetings.

"Subscripts" works, but they do not appear in the Scofield Reference edition, the New Oxford Annotated, or the New English Bible. For example, the site below claims that "subscripts" appear at the ends of Timothy both 1 and 2, but they are not included in the three editions I've listed above.

I wouldn't call them "glosses" at all, since they involve no scholarly commentary, Instead, they were simply additions made for putative clarification purposes but later dropped in modern editions. There is a scholarly view that they were made by Euthalius or people associated with his activities.

By the way, qp, do you actually own a copy of Strong's Concordance? I'd love to have one of my own, so tell me where you got yours!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthalius

It is assumed that only after the second Epistle was the first called the first.

As with Timothy and John and Samuel and Kings and Chronicles and Macabees and Esdras and Peter and Thessalonians.

All of this depends upon which version one ascribes to.

Yes, I do, Frankie. They're readily available at Amazon or christianbook.com.

http://www.amazon.com/New-Strongs-Exhaustive-Concordance-Bible/dp/078526096X

https://www.christianbook.com/page/academic/bible-reference/concordances

Also, I've discovered those notes are properly called "subscriptions" and are considered bogus by major Bible commentators. "It has already been noted that the subscriptions to the sacred books are of little or no authority, all having been added in latter times, and frequently by injudicious hands." From http://www.godrules.net/library/clarke/clarkerom16.htm

Apologies, I should have stated it's the King James Version I'm referring to. The edition I'm using was printed in 1859, but modern editions show similar 'end notes' to Paul's epistles.
Clearly they weren't written by or on behalf of Paul, but were added at a later date. I'm certain there is a specific term for them, and 'subscriptions' is as good as anything I suppose :)
Thanks for the interest.