Notes and short
epistles from her aunt, with divers letters from Anna written slyly in the school-room and slipped into her lap, she was already well acquainted with; but of real, genuine letters, stamped by the post-office, rumpled by the mail-bags, consecrated by the steam-boat, this was certainly the first.
The
epistle is laconic," said D'Artagnan; "and if there had not been a postscript, probably I should not have understood it; but happily there is a postscript.
But it took all Diana's breezy, newsy, delightful
epistle to banish the sting of Ruby's postscript.
He therefore seized the little
epistle, and opened it eagerly.
Even the prophets wrote book after book and
epistle after
epistle, yet never once hinted at the existence of a great continent on our side of the water; yet they must have known it was there, I should think.
It is so difficult to become clearly possessed of the contents of almost any letter, in a violent hurry, that I had to read this mysterious
epistle again, twice, before its injunction to me to be secret got mechanically into my mind.
This is a long
epistle that I am sending you, but the reason is that today I feel in good spirits after dining at Rataziaev's.
Muted Voices of the New Testament: Readings in the Catholic
Epistles and Hebrews
Spanish witnesses long claimed khipus contained historical narratives, biographies and
epistles, but scholars dismissed them as memory aids, providing simple mnemonic tools rather than providing a writing system to preserve information.
Seventy Images of Grace in the
Epistles" presents an interplay of stories of people's actual lives and
Epistle images of grace.
Among the topics are the task and method of exegesis, medical imagery in the pastoral
epistles, whether the Thessalonians wrote to Paul, traditions and theology of care in the New Testament, paranaesis in the
Epistle to Titus, the vertus feminarium in 1 Timothy 2:9-15, self-definition among the cynics, Heracles, Athenagoras on the poets and philosophers, a physical description of Paul, and a review of Helmut Koester's Introduction to the New Testament.
It has long been realised that Horace's three longer
epistles (to Augustus, Florus, and the Pisones)--often amalgamated, probably anachronistically, (5) into a single book called '
Epistles 2' in many modern editions--present a wholly different tone to those of his first.
