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epistle Definition

epis·tle (ē pisəl)

noun

  1. a letter, esp. a long, formal, instructive letter: now generally a facetious use
    1. any of the letters in the New Testament
    2. a selection, usually from these Epistles, read in various churches

Etymology: ME epistel < OFr epistle (& OE epistol) < L epistola, epistula < Gr epistolē, a letter, message < epistellein, to send to < epi-, to + stellein, to send, summon: see stalk

epistle Usage Examples

Preposition: about

  • assurance: This is an epistle about assurance, how can I know that I'm a child of God?

Converse of object

  • write: I went to write an epistle About a visit to a whistle Factory.
  • read: All this may be deduced from reading the first epistle.
  • address: Of numerous poetical epistles addressed to Walton, we may notice the verses to ' Iz.
  • receive: Epistles from other Yearly Meetings Britain Yearly Meeting receives epistles from a variety of other yearly meetings.
  • have: What relevance has this little epistle to our modern day?
  • contain: The first six verses of this chapter contain an epistle sent by Jesus Christ to the church of Sardis.

Preposition: as

  • whole: Michaels is sound and capable with details, but lacks any real vision for the epistle as a whole.

Adjective modifier

  • dedicatory: On the contrary, it is dedicated to Gilberd by Edward Wright, who wrote the dedicatory epistle.
  • catholic: The catholic epistles all have for their subject, in some sense, the path through the world.
  • pastoral: Now remember I told you that " godliness " is a key word in the pastoral epistles.
  • second: Peter starts the second epistle talking about our side, we believed.
  • first: By the way, the ones to whom he wrote were the same ones to whom he wrote in the first epistle.
  • whole: The whole Epistle to the Hebrews is a protest against it.

Noun used with modifier

  • verse: I've only just started reading the Black Sea Letters, the verse epistles published in the same Penguin volume.
  • draft: Other business will include the receipt of the draft epistle, and amendments to Quaker faith & practice.

Possessives

  • today: This is an explanation of today's epistle, part of Romans 4, in the form of a dialog with St Paul.

Preposition: of

  • joy: It en epistle of joy despite the fact that Paul is in prison.
  • apostle: The epistles of the apostle, St. Paul, had already established themselves, and others were beginning to emerge into recognition.
  • certainty: But thank God for John's first epistle, an epistle of certainty for his age and ours, which are ages of uncertainty.

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