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e·pis·tle
/ iˈpisəl/
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n. formal
a letter.
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a poem or other literary work in the form of a letter or series of letters.
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(also Epistle)
a book of the New Testament in the form of a letter from an Apostle:
St. Paul's epistle to the Romans.
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an extract from an Epistle (or another New Testament book not a Gospel) that is read in a church service.
ORIGIN: Old English, via Latin from Greek epistolē, from epistellein ‘send news,’ from epi ‘upon, in addition’ + stellein ‘send.’ The word was reintroduced in Middle English from Old French.
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Scalometry and the Pauline Epistles
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...K. BARR, Scalometry and the Pauline Epistles (JSNTSup 261 ; London/New York: Clark...many as nine of the thirteen Pauline epistles, as well as the uncertain authorship...for the authenticity of all thirteen epistles in the Pauline corpus, suggesting that...
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James as the First Catholic Epistle
Magazine article from: Interpretation; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...stuff, the Gospels, Acts, and the Epistles of Paul. What is left over includes the seven Catholic Epistles. From our earliest knowledge of them...They are often referred to as "General Epistles," taking "Catholic" to mean that...
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Not By Paul Alone: The Formation of the Catholic Epistle Collection and the Christian Canon
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Hermeneutics of the Epistle of James [Carlisle...from the other Catholic Epistles as well. Nienhuis challenges...collection-the Catholic Epistles collection. Chapter...New Testament Catholic Epistle Collection" 29-97...formation of the Catholic Epistles in English, and here...
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The Intertextuality of the Epistles: Explorations of Theory and Practice
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...explorations of intertextuality in terms of a threefold network ("triple intertextuality"): from OT to epistles, epistle to epistle, and epistles to Gospels (and Acts). Part 1 is entitled "Aspects of Theory, Practice, and Related Research...
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The Epistle of James and Eschatology: Re-reading an Ancient Christian Letter
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; TODD C. PENNER, The Epistle of James and Eschatology: Re-reading...1996). Pp. 331. 53, $80. If the Epistle of James bears significantly upon the...42-43). Nor should we judge the epistle to be late because James 2 appears to...
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The Pastoral Epistles: First Timothy, Second Timothy, Titus
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...BENJAMIN FIORE, S.J., The Pastoral Epistles: First Timothy, Second Timothy, Titus...begins with an outline of the respective epistles followed by Fiore 's translation of...subjects. Fiore treats the Pastoral Epistles as a unity within the larger NT Pauline...
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Epistle to Philemon raises many questions
Newspaper article from: Redlands Daily Facts; 9/16/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...as well as scholars is the very brief Epistle to Philemon. Written by the Apostle Paul...believers, one of the painful issues with the Epistle to Philemon is of course its tacit acceptance...the state church of the empire. But the Epistle to Philemon has other mysteries for us...
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Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...JAMES W. AAGESON, Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church (Library of Pauline...support of the claim that the Pastoral Epistles were written most likely after Paul...chapters: (1) "Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Pauline Legacy"; (2...
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Not by Paul Alone: The Formation of the Catholic Epistle Collection and the Christian Canon
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...thesis: the Epistle of James was...collection of epistles ostensibly by...the Catholic Epistles group in our...faith. The Epistle of James is...insights about the Epistle of James, the other Catholic Epistles, and the canonical...
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Bolingbroke's laugh: Alexander Pope's Epistle to Bolingbroke and the rhetoric of embodied exemplarity.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Literary Imagination; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...who loves me, and who ought to mend? (Epistle to Bolingbroke, lines 161-78; TE 4...Alexander Pope chooses Horace's first epistle to be his last, I want to begin this essay on Pope's Epistle to Bolingbroke by considering its conclusion...
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Pastoral Epistles
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Pastoral Epistles The three letters of the NT placed after...and that to Titus ‘Pastoral Epistles’, the name has stuck. It...Christ (1 Tim. 3: 16). The three epistles' claim to be written by Paul has been...
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John, Epistles of St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...Epistles of St. Three NT Epistles which tradition ascribes to...also admit that of the First Epistle; among those who reject it...divided. The Second and Third Epistles were not generally admitted...author from that of the First Epistle. The First Epistle reflects...
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Timothy, epistles to
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Timothy, epistles to Together with the epistle to Titus, these letters...Irenaeus regard the epistles as authentically Pauline...majority view is that the epistles were written later...heretics. The second epistle commends the experience...
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captivity epistles
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
...Probably therefore these three epistles were written in Rome about...place of composition for the epistles to the Colossians and to...Roman, date for these two epistles. There is a fairly wide agreement that the epistle to the Ephesians comes from...
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Ephesians, epistle to the
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Ephesians, epistle to the In the NT, the fifth...Eph. and the (Pauline) epistle to the Colossians. Both...some of Paul's previous epistles and wrote this document...Marcion referred to it as the epistle to Laodicea. Cf. Col...
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