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  • Excommunication is a religious censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. The word literally means out of communion ...
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  • deacons in its salutation, and the First Epistle to Timothy gives details ... Ignatius of Antioch (c. 110 C.E.), in his Second Epistle to the Trallians ...
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  • are very similar to those of the pseudepigraphal Epistle of Aristeas. The work begins somewhat abruptly, leading many to think that it is actually a fragment ...
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  • (found in the Gospels and rehearsed in the First Epistle to the Corinthians); there is an example of an apostle and others participating in this act ...
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  • category, along with the Apocalypse of Peter, the Epistle of Barnabas, and this Gospel of the Hebrews. Some scholars agree with the Church Fathers ...
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  • /cyril_to_nestorius_3.shtml Third Epistle to Nestorius, with "Twelve Anathemas."] Retrieved July 8, 2007. However, the Assyrian Church ...
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  • Sin is a term used to describe either an action that is prohibited in religious ethics or law, or a fallen state of being. The religious concept ...
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  • Barber Lightfoot in his Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians writes: ... In his First Epistle to the Thessalonians, Paul writes in chapter ...
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  • this attitude dates back to the Epistle to the Hebrews, whose author claimed that God had established His "new covenant" with mankind ...
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  • * Epistle to the Romans (Rom.) * First Epistle to the Corinthians (1 Cor.) * Second Epistle to the ...
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  • [[Image:Gutenberg bible Old Testament Epistle of St Jerome.jpg|thumb|300px|First page of the first volume: The Epistle of St. Jerome. The page ...
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  • noblest stanzas and most polished verse. The epistle to Lucy, Countess of Bedford, is remarkable among those as being composed in genuine terza rima ...
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  • is true that Cyprian in his letter to Stephen (Epistle 66) gives Lucius, as well as Cornelius, the honorary title of martyr: "for the glorious memory ...
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  • Christ with the scapegoat is made in the Epistle of Barnabas, ... Folklore Elements in an Early Christian Epistle." Folklore 70(3) (September ...
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  • Upon his return to London, Wyatt wrote a verse epistle based on his diplomatic experiences, entitled My Own John Poins: :Mine own John Poynz ...
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  • scholars who also argue for an early date of First Epistle to Timothy believe 1|Timothy|5:18 is referencing |Luke|10:7 , and thus argue Luke pre ...
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  • a letter to Nestorius known as "The Third Epistle of Saint Cyril to Nestorius." This epistle drew heavily on the established Patristic Constitutions ...
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  • to Gregory Thaumaturgus (c.213-c.270) and the epistle to Sextus Julius Africanus (defending the authenticity of the Greek additions to the Book ...
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  • The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of royal absolutism. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority ...
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  • in the conviction of Mindszenty. In his apostolic epistle Acerrimo Moerore, the pope publicly expressed his solidarity with the suffering Hungarian ...
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