Four years back I looked into a version of Romans which lacked Paul's plans for the future 14:24f. People said Marcion did without those chapters. I said that if so, Marcion was simply following Luke, whose Acts also cuts short. The youtuber "Testify" has lately been on Acts' case if we cared.
Today Peter J. Montoro IV at Evangelical Textual Criticism has been running down some old references to a Latin tradition of Romans 1:1–14:23 followed immediately by 16:24–27
. Some scholars have been prepending only; the implication being, that 14:24f wasn't there.
But as far as we know, these chapters were there. They just came after a doxology, like an appendix. Rudolf Schumacher, Die beiden letzten Kapitel des Römerbriefes in Neutestamentliche Abhandlungen (1929) speculated manuscripts which lacked those chapters, but the actual MSS he had in Latin all had them. Such errant MSS perhaps could have existed in Latin and even in Greek. In Italy, anyway, people were copying 1 Clement which (I think) knew of Romans 14:24f.
The mistake seems to stem from T. W. Manson, “St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans—And Others” (1948). He'd mislabeled Schumacher's conjecture as a witness to Latin MSS which Manson didn't own.
We owe to Montoro some gratitude for running down this error before it infect more papers.
That said, I agree with Schumacher. Marcion did write prologues to the Epistles, which included Romans up to 14:23.
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