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Definition of Epistles
1. epistle [n] - See also: epistle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epistles
Literary usage of Epistles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE SPURIOUS epistles OF IGNATIUS. To the following introductory
note of the translators nothing need be prefixed, except a grateful ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"epistles and Leiters.—The student of literary history soon discovers lhat a broad
distinction exists between the letter and the epistle. ..."
3. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"Two original epistles, from Gregory the Second to the emperor Leo, ... The two
epistles of Gregory II. have been preserved in the Act! of the Nicene Council ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The better ones are the epistles of St. James and St. Jude, II Peter, ...
The three epistles of St. John and II Peter appear, but after each stands the note ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1854)
"Two original epistles from Gregory II. to the emperor Leo are still extant ;J
and if they cannot be praised as the most perfect models of eloquence and ..."
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