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epistle::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of epistle
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The first epistle arrives on Holly's 30th birthday, along with a tape recording.
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Some consider the anonymous Epistle to the Hebrews a fourteenth Pauline epistle.
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Many consider the epistle to be written in the late 1st or early 2nd centuries.
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The Sage of Omaha's latest epistle is just out, and it is full of good things.
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It's an epic verse-epistle to the long-dead Czech communist writer Egon Kisch.
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When the epistle is sung or chanted at Solemn Mass it is done so by the subdeacon.
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Consequently, the epistle seems to have been written after the Council of Jerusalem.
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The epistle dissuades non-Jewish Christians from feeling a need to convert to Judaism.
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This reflects the amount of Hellenistic influence upon the epistle writers.
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- A specially long, formal letter
- A book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle
- An epistle (/u1D7Bu02C8pu026Asu0259l/; Greek u1F10u03C0u03B9u03C3u03C4u03BFu03BBu03AE, epistolu0113, "letter") is a writing directed or sent to a person or group of people, usually an elegant and formal didactic letter. The epistle genre of letter-writing was common in ancient Egypt as part of the scribal-school writing curriculum. The letters in the New Testament from Apostles to Christians are usually referred to as epistles...
- Epistulae or Epistles are a specific genre of letter-writing composed in Latin. The term may also refer to specific works: *Epistulae (Pliny), a collection of letters from Pliny the Younger *Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea), a work of Ovid *Epistulae Heroidum (Letters of Heroines) ...
- Quaker epistle: in the 17th Century, the Quaker movement revived the Gospel use of the word "epistle" to mean an advisory or admonitory letter, sent to a group of people, sometimes termed a "general epistle" .
- (Epistles (Horace)) The Letters by Horace were published in two books, in 20 BC and 14 BC, respectively.
- (Epistles (Plato)) The Epistles of Plato are a series of thirteen letters traditionally included in the Platonic corpus. Their authenticity has been the subject of some dispute, and scholarly consensus has shifted back and forth over time. ...
- (Epistles) letters which form part of the Christian New Testament. There are twenty-one Epistles in the NT, many of which are attributed to the Apostle Paul (though some erroneously).
- (Epistles) Letters written under inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to be read as instruction to the churches. "I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren" (1 Thes. 5:27).
