much later on: they all moved to Strasbourg, which was for them the “spiritual Jerusalem” of the end time.93 Although there are yet additional reasons for agreeing with Bultmann that “the earliest Church regarded itself as the Congregation of the end of days,”94 I will mention just one. With the exception of Philemon, 2 John, and 3 John, all three of which are brief and nearly devoid of theology, apocalyptic eschatology or some obvious trace of it appears in all first-century Christian documents.