"epistle" is correct and usable in written English
An epistle is a written letter typically from one person to another, or from one group of people to another. You can use "epistle" to refer to any type of written letter, even those not sent through the mail. For example: "John wrote an epistle to his wife expressing his love and gratitude."
Best, Joe Dear Joe, I will only return to the subject of Jewishness and the evil of antisemitism in every other epistle.
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From exile in the Crimea he wrote that he prayed for the safety of the faithful and "the pastor who is now placed over there"; this epistle was taken as proof of his resignation.Benedict V held the position for only a month until June 964 when Otto I (of the Holy Roman Empire) demanded his resignation in favour of his protégé, Leo VIII.
Avempace's most representative works are the Rule of the Solitary.[29] the epistle of the Farewell Message,[30] and the Epistle of Conjunction of Intellect with Man.[31] The latter work contains references to Rule of the Solitary and to the epistle of the Farewell Message (as well as to his book on the Soul).
By adhering to a strict naturalism about right and obligation and maintaining that "the sovereign power in a State has right over a subject only in proportion to the excess of its power over that of a subject" (Epistle 50), Spinoza, unlike Hobbes, places the burden of political stability on the sovereign rather than the subject (see Wernham 1958, 27).
But St. Paul (or whoever wrote the epistle) goes on to say in the very next verse (Titus 1 13) "This witness is true".
When he finished his treatise On the Conjunction of Man with Intellect he apologized for not having been able to produce a demonstrative argument, burhân, on the issue and uttered his hope that the addressee of the epistle would be able to grasp its sense and meaning (Asín Palacios 1942, pp. 22 23; Ibn Bâjja 1968, 172 173).
Such people clearly existed: the Epistle to the Hebrews, a deeply enigmatic section of the New Testament, is addressed to those who were steeped in the lore of the Jewish Temple, and wondered how the self-sacrifice of their crucified Master related to the animal sacrifices of their ancestral faith.
(Some Catholic theologians, however, say that Christ's harrowing of Hell never happened, and is a misreading of the First Epistle of Peter, 3 19).That is as may be.
THREE years ago, in a slim volume entitled "Epistle to an Israeli Jewish-Zionist Leader", Yehezkel Dror, a veteran Israeli political scientist, set out two contrasting visions of how his country might look in the year 2040.In the first, it has some 50% more people, is home to two-thirds of the world's Jewry and, as today, is four-fifths Jewish itself.
Epistle 47 considers prophecy and the imamate.
