who wrote the first letter we know of containing the full 27 books
Development of the New Testament canon By the end of the 1st century, some letters of Paul were known to Clement of Rome (fl.â€¯96), together with some form of the "words of Jesus"; but while Clement valued these highly, he did not regard them as "Scripture" ("graphe"), a term he reserved for the Septuagint. Metzger 1987 draws the following conclusion about Clement: