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What (who) is Epistle - definition
A LETTER WRITTEN FOR A DIDACTIC PURPOSE
Epistles; Epistle (in Scripture); Epistola; Epistulae; Epistle (liturgy); Apostle (in Liturgy); New Testament epistles; Draft:The Epistles; The Epistles
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![Opening of the Epistle to the Galatians, [[illuminated manuscript]] for reading during [[Christian liturgy]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Epistle to Galatians Illuminated.jpg?width=200 "Opening of the Epistle to the Galatians, [[illuminated manuscript]] for reading during [[Christian liturgy]].")
![The ''Kniga Apostol'' (1632), [[lectionary]] in [[Church Slavonic]] for use in the [[Divine Liturgy]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kniga Apostol 1632 Drukarnya S Sobal.jpg?width=200 "The ''Kniga Apostol'' (1632), [[lectionary]] in [[Church Slavonic]] for use in the [[Divine Liturgy]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]].")
![''[[Saint Paul]] Writing His Epistles'', by [[Valentin de Boulogne]] or [[Nicolas Tournier]] (c. 16th century, Blaffer Foundation Collection, Houston, TX).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PaulT.jpg?width=200 "''[[Saint Paul]] Writing His Epistles'', by [[Valentin de Boulogne]] or [[Nicolas Tournier]] (c. 16th century, Blaffer Foundation Collection, Houston, TX).")
Epistle
·vt To Write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.
II. Epistle ·noun One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles.
III. Epistle ·noun A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter;
- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.
epistle
n.
1.
Letter, note, written communication.
2.
Letter, missive, apostolical letter.
epistle
(epistles)
1.
An epistle is a letter. (LITERARY)
N-COUNT: supp N
2.
In the Bible, the Epistles are a series of books in the New Testament which were originally written as letters to the early Christians.
N-COUNT: usu N to n
Wikipedia
Epistle
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An epistle (; Greek: ἐπιστολή, epistolē, "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. Those traditionally attributed to Paul are known as Pauline epistles and the others as catholic (i.e., "general") epistles.
Examples of use of Epistle
1. I‘ve often referred to the words of the Epistle of St.
2. There is not quite enough space in the news pages, tragically, to publish this epic epistle in its entirety.
3. This anecdote appears in Dror‘s book, "Epistle to an Israeli Jewish–Zionist Leader" (Carmel Publishers, in Hebrew). Advertisement Prof.
4. In Solomon’s story we have a reference to Solomon’s epistle that is received by the Queen of Sheba.
5. In the preface to his 1522 New Testament, Martin Luther famously called it an "epistle of straw" for seeming to contradict his teaching of salvation through grace alone.