New Testament Testament appear differs between some collections and ecclesiastical traditions. In the Latin West, prior to the Vulgate (an early 5th-century Latin version of the Bible), the four Gospels were arranged in the following order: Matthew, John, Luke, and Mark. The Syriac Peshitta places the major Catholic epistles (James, 1 Peter, and 1 John) immediately after Acts and before the Pauline epistles. The order of an early edition of the letters of Paul is based on the size of the letters: longest to shortest, though keeping 1 and 2 Corinthians and 1 and 2 Thessalonians together. The Pastoral epistles were apparently
John Lightfoot of Claudius)" was published later that year. In 1647 came "The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the Old Testament", followed in 1655 by "The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the New Testament", inscribed to Cromwell. He helped Brian Walton with the "Polyglot Bible" (1657). His own best-known work was the "Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae", in which the volume relating to the Gospel of Matthew appeared in 1658, that relating to the Gospel of Mark in 1663, and those relating to 1 Corinthians, John and Luke, in 1664, 1671 and 1674 respectively. The "Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae impensae in Acta Apostolorum