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Curetonian Epistles, 61 sq; see also _Ignatian Epistles_
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858
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The Horatian tag (Epistles i, xiv, 19) is of course 'O Imitatores servum pecus'.] [Footnote 55: In his _Preface Concerning Ovid's Epistles_ affixed to the translation of the _Heroides_ (_Ovid's Epistles_), 'by Several
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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The scientific-philosophical Arabo-Islamic encyclopedia bearing the title Epistles of the Brethren of Purity and of the Lovers of Faith (Rasa'il ikhwan al-safa™ wa-khullan al-wafa™), which includes 52 treatises about mathematical sciences, logic, physical sciences, metaphysics, anthropology, and theology, had a relevant, although unexpected and not usually studied influence on Medieval Judaic thought in the 11th-15th centuries in Spain and Provence, and in Yemen as well.
Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007
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The Sermons and twenty Epistles from the Arabic are by common consent pronounced wholly spurious.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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On the other hand, the Gnosticism opposed in these Epistles is not the anti-Judaic Gnosticism of a later date, which arose as a consequence of the overthrow of Judaism by the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, but it was the intermediate phase between Judaism and
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A forger of Epistles from the Acts would never allude to Timothy's knowledge of persecutions, when that knowledge is not expressly mentioned in the history, but is only arrived at by indirect inference; also the omission of Derbe here, in the Epistle, is in minute accordance with the fact that in Derbe no persecution is mentioned in the history, though Derbe and Lystra are commonly mentioned together.
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The Epistles from the apostles were publicly read in the church assemblies.
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Among these I particularly noticed his Latin commentary on Genesis and Isaiah, and a copy of St. Paul's Epistles from the Greek Testament, pub - lished by Erasmus.
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Subjoined to the books of the New Testament contained in it, there are two writings described as the Epistles of one Clement.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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His Epistles are his most perfect work, and are, indeed, among the most original and polished forms of Roman verse.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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