epistle

• "Tell me all about yourself But I'm just here to, uh, deliver a, uh, letter And what kind of epistle is an 'uh' letter It's a, uh-" He stopped. —  Up In A Heaval
• In neither epistle is there any trace of a grand passion felt or slighted. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Gibbon, by James Cotter Morison
• Ever your Grace's truly obliged Walter SCOTT The only letter which Scott addressed to Joanna Baillie, while in Paris, goes over partly the same ground: I transcribe the rest PARIS, 6th September, 1815 MY DEAR FRIEND,--I owe you a long letter, but my late travels and the date of this epistle will be a tolerable plea for your indulgence. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• As Bishop of Jerusalem he presided specially over the Jewish Christian Church, and his epistle is addressed "to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad," i.e., to the Jews of the Dispersion, primarily, no doubt, to the Christian Jews, but also secondarily and by way of warning to the unconverted Jews. —  The Theology of Holiness
• But Paul keeps true to the intensely practical purpose of his preaching and brings his heroes down to the prosaic earth with the homely common sense of this far-reaching exhortation, which he gives as the fitting conclusion for such celestial visions I. A Christian life should be a life of constant self-purifying This epistle is addressed to the church of God which is at Corinth with all the saints which are in all Achaia Looking out over that wide region, Paul saw scattered over godless masses a little dispersed company to each of whom the sacred name of Saint applied. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.

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