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A similar order of a first reading, gradual (instead of a tract) and collect before the Epistle is also found in other very ancient Masses of the Roman Rite, for example, the Wednesday Ember Days.
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This Epistle is addressed also to Apphia, supposed from its domestic subject to have been Philemon's wife, and Archippus (a minister of the Colossian Church, Col 4: 17), for the same reason, supposed to be a near relative.
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Two theories, besides the ordinary one, have been held on the question, to whom the Epistle is addressed.
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Grace -- Greek, "The grace," namely, of God. with you all -- not that the Epistle is addressed to all the Cretan
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This Epistle is the last testament and swan-like death song of Paul
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The GENUINENESS of this Epistle is attested by Justin Martyr [Dialogue with Trypho, p. 311, B.], who quotes "the first-born of every creature," in reference to Christ, from Col 1: 15.
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Grayling does himself no favors with his foreword, here called an Epistle, which is written in such a grand, high-flown style and with such immodest ambition "its aspiration and aim the good for humanity and the good of the world" that a casual reader might even call it a sin of pride.
Michael Giltz: The Bible 2.0? A Humanist Bible Lays Down The Gauntlet Michael Giltz 2011
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Grayling does himself no favors with his foreword, here called an Epistle, which is written in such a grand, high-flown style and with such immodest ambition "its aspiration and aim the good for humanity and the good of the world" that a casual reader might even call it a sin of pride.
Michael Giltz: The Bible 2.0? A Humanist Bible Lays Down The Gauntlet Michael Giltz 2011
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Grayling does himself no favors with his foreword, here called an Epistle, which is written in such a grand, high-flown style and with such immodest ambition "its aspiration and aim the good for humanity and the good of the world" that a casual reader might even call it a sin of pride.
Michael Giltz: The Bible 2.0? A Humanist Bible Lays Down The Gauntlet Michael Giltz 2011
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Grayling does himself no favors with his foreword, here called an Epistle, which is written in such a grand, high-flown style and with such immodest ambition "its aspiration and aim the good for humanity and the good of the world" that a casual reader might even call it a sin of pride.
Michael Giltz: The Bible 2.0? A Humanist Bible Lays Down The Gauntlet Michael Giltz 2011
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