Letters (for by this usurped title epistles are now commonly known) are of several kinds.
Bembo, it is well known, advised Sadoleto to 'avoid the Epistles of S.
It chanced one day that he discovered a copy of his own epistlesannotated by a Spanish nobleman who was a pupil of Lorenzo Valla.
These epistles were dated from Milan, whither Filelfo had retired in 1476, to find his third wife dead of the plague, and buried on the eve of his arrival.
And throughout all of Paul's epistles one hears the same jubilant, triumphant declaration, "I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Even in those parts of his epistles where formal argument has ceased, and where solid doctrine is absent, the doctrine flows as a fluid element into the practical convictions of life, and determines the shape and quality of the judgments.
And so the epistles abound in the recital of mystic ministries at work.
By Christ redeemed; in Christ restored"; it is with these dynamics of restoration that his epistles are so wondrously abounding.
When we get out of the gospels into the epistles we find ourselves face to face with the same tragic and glorious fact.
Both Epistles are full of information as to the condition of the church and the many problems which hit had to face from time to time.
It, therefore, represents more fully than any other of Paul's epistles his doctrine of the person and preeminence of Christ.
Good works or good things, the keyword of the epistles and used seven times.
From suggestions found here and there in these two epistles it appears that much communication passed between Paul and the church and that the two letters that have come down to us are only some of a series.
Paul's epistles are commonly put into four groups as follows: (1) The Eschatological group, or those dealing with the second coming of Christ.
Christ's ascension, as well as in all their work before his death: (6) He also wrote three epistles and Revelation.
I reminded myself that St. Peter had said of the Pauline Epistles that in them were "some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest .
In order to understand aright the epistles of Cicero a man must have been full twenty years in the public service of a great State.
In the first reply spuriousepistles are made to relate how the two Leipzig letters had been brought by a messenger to Luther’s house, and had then been carried by the servants unread to the “back-chamber where it stinketh.
Epistles to the Romans and to the Galatians, according to him, hold the first place in their eulogy of Christ, by their recommendation of faith in Him alone.
It was his wish that religious addresses in the shape of simple, hearty instructions on the Epistles and Gospels should be given weekly by every father to his family.
Here he goes so far as to suggest that James probably spoke so explicitly of works because the passages on faith in Paul’s Epistles had been misunderstood by some.
We may, then, receive as genuine the thirteen epistles ascribed to St. Paul; and we have good reason for believing that we have them in their integrity, substantially as he wrote them.
And although the vocabulary of these epistles differs in rather a striking way, as Dr.
Of all the other epistlesascribed to Paul his name is the first word; this epistle does not announce its author.
I will only add that the subscriptions which follow the epistles in the old version are no part of the epistles, and in several cases they are erroneous.
I have attended to these criticisms; but the reasons urged for denying the Pauline authorship of these epistles seem to me in many cases far-fetched and fanciful in the extreme.
All this and much more of the same import we find in those epistles which Baur admits to be the genuine writings of Paul.
Of course those who have determined, for dogmatic reasons, to reject the Fourth Gospel, are bound to reject these epistles also; but that procedure is wholly unwarranted, as we shall see in the next chapter.
Let such a one think, that such as we are in word byepistles when absent, such also will we be in work when present.
Epistles of Lucilius," one hundred and twenty-four in number.
The Odes, Satires andEpistles are his chief productions.
Villenave to ask for information; well, my unworthy epistleswere put into their wrappers, classified and labelled.
Of the former, we find one in St Cyprian, to whom the fourth and seventeenth epistles are inscribed.
A third of his dissertation is a renewal of the argument in the previous epistles that all things have a mutual dependence, that every creature is made both for others and for itself.
Two "Epistles to Mr. Pope concerning the Authors of the Age," by the poet Young.
The matter intended for the first epistle was expanded into four epistles as the work proceeded, and in August, 1731, Bolingbroke announced to Swift that three of them were completed, and that the fourth was in hand.
France by this same John of Meun, and prefixed to a French translation of Boetius, it appears that he also translated the epistles of Abelard to Heloisa, which were in high vogue at the court.
To others he only spoke of his ethic epistles in the "Horatian way.
Theobald's Shakespeare was published in 1733, the same year with the first three epistles of the Essay on Man.
The second and third Epistles were published, and Pope was, I believe, more and more suspected of writing them.
The Design" was prefixed in 1735, when Pope inserted the four Epistles of the Essay on Man in his works.
The whole work" was to have been in four books, and the phrase "this book" means the four published Epistles of the Essay on Man, which were to form the first book of the full design.
The last three Epistles were printed like their precursor, in quarto and octavo, as well as folio.
This was the first sight that John saw after he had received his epistles for the seven churches.
I said, Show me the place in the epistles where the Common Prayer Book is written, or one text of Scripture that commands me to read it, and I will use it.
I must write to the Rector and beg him not to be so tiresome, for truly I am nursing and doing everything I can to make your father comfortable and then he is quite upset by one of these epistles Mr W.
The Emperors Justinian and Theodoric are both reputed to have affixed their signatures by the aid of a perforated tin plate; and the mystery which attaches itself to the Epistles of Phalaris still awaits some definite solution.
The character he there has given to himself for laziness is corroborated by his extant epistles in prose.
It may be said in passing that he never shows so well as in the epistles to Sansovino and Titian, men from whom he could gain but indirectly, and to whom he clung by an instinct of what was truest and sincerest in his nature.
His epistles were continually being printed--in fact, were sent to the press as soon as written.
Then pulling an old family bible from his pocket, he quoted several passages from the epistles of St. Peter and St. Paul; concluding with a desire that the bill might be thrown out.
Whiston published a work in four volumes, justifying his doctrine, and maintaining that the apostolical constitutions were not only canonical, but also preferable in point of authority to the epistles and the gospels.
He held to the epistles of St. Ignatius with the tenacity of a Caroline prelate, and was grateful to De Rossi for a chronological point in their favour.
In Prussia there was a conscientious clergyman who taught his parishioners Greek, and then showed them all the passages, especially in the Epistles of St. Paul, which were intentionally altered in the translation.
The key-note of theseepistles is their artlessness.
From among his more general and less didactic epistles three may be given as examples.
She drew an easy-chair near to the sofa and sat down, with her face turned towards Elsie, opened one or two of the epistles and read passages from them.
Of his Latin works the Epistles are the most generally known and admired.
The epistles of Cicero were fine, and so were those of Phalaris.
Horace's lightest Satires or Epistleshave generally something grave about them: his gravest have more than one light passage.
Acquaintance, however, with some of the Pauline epistles "must be regarded as incontestably established" (O.
The connexions with the Pauline epistles are conclusive for a date later than the death of James; those with Clement and Hermas are perhaps sufficient to date it as prior to the former, and suggest Rome as the place of origin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epistles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
