2. Noun. (plural of apostle) ¹
3. Noun. (legal) Letters dismissory. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apostles
1. apostle [n] - See also: apostle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apostles
Literary usage of Apostles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"And are not all vagabonds from the apostles' power and inheritance, that are not
in the same power and Holy Ghost the apostles were in, though they may talk ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"2, as also for the " apostles " of the second generation implied in the ...
15.4, " the apostles and teachers of the message of the Son of God," so 25. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"This seems neither an attempt to merge the two canonical accounts (Zahn), nor
proof that Papias knew not the Gospel of Matthew and the Acts of the apostles; ..."
4. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"Where did the apostles teach thee any such thing as the Catholic creed? ...
Didst thou not learn this of the pope who apostatized from the apostles ? ..."
5. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"The blessed apostles, then, having founded and built up the Church, committed
into the hands of Linus the office of the episcopate. Of i this Linus, ..."
6. Unitarian Principles Confirmed by Trinitarian Testimonies: Being Selections by Octavius Brooks Frothingham, John Wilson (1880)
"Most of the choicest and sublimes! truths of Christianity are to be met with in
the Epistles of the apostles, they being such doctrines as were not clearly ..."
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