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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The seven New Testament epistles (James, I and II Peter, I–III John, and Jude) that are construed as addressing the concerns of the universal church.
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Generally speaking, we may describe the so-called Catholic Epistles as Post-Pauline.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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[565] Calvin, Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles, tr. and ed. John
Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000
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He was enabled to publish the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark in 1857; those of St. Luke and St. John in 1861; the Acts and the Catholic Epistles in 1865; the Pauline Epistles in 1869-70.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Nestorians possess a Canon almost identical with the final one of the ancient East Syrians; they exclude the four smaller Catholic Epistles and Apocalypse.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The canon therefore excludes the Apocalypse and all the Catholic Epistles; in this it agrees with Aphraates, Theodore of Mopsuestia, the Syriac stichometrical list of Cod.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Lucian, then, according to Zahn, would have compromised between the Syriac Canon and the Canon of Origen by admitting the three longer Catholic Epistles and keeping out
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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In like manner there are many who contest the Catholic Epistles; but even if the Second
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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It is known that Theodore of Mopsuestia rejected all the Catholic Epistles.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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We shall here briefly review the Christology of St. Paul, of the Catholic Epistles, of the Fourth Gospel, and the Synoptics.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Constantinople at the order of his imperial patron Constantine; and he incorporated all the Catholic Epistles, but excluded Apocalypse.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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