Chapter, Paragraph

  1 Pref |        were found in the sermons, letters, revelations, gospels, and
  2  1,3 |                                   Letters and Gospels.~With the letters
  3  1,3 |     Letters and Gospels.~With the letters of Paul and the earliest
  4  1,3 |         beginnings, mere personal letters, for the most part, long
  5  1,5 |      grouped according to type as letters, revelations, gospels, and
  6  1,6 |      collections of them — of the letters of Paul and of the Four
  7  2   |                                   Letters.~ ~
  8  2,1 |                            Paul's Letters.~The earliest form of Christian
  9  2,1 | collection and publication of his letters had standardized it as a
 10  2,1 |         the other early Christian letters, particularly of what we
 11  2,2 |          the general, or Catholic letters, to which it was evidently
 12  2,2 |        Clement with the collected letters of Paul is also clear; he
 13  2,2 |     writer to quote one of Paul's letters expressly: “Take up the
 14  2,2 |        knowledge of the collected letters of Paul on the part of Clement
 15  2,2 |          exactly when the Pauline letters were collected. More important
 16  2,2 |      involved, for both are Roman letters to the Christians of the
 17  2,2 |    Corinth. The fact that in both letters those who oversee the Churches
 18  2,2 |        stand between the catholic letters [of James] and those of
 19  2,2 |     literature, speaks of the two letters of Clement as belonging
 20  2,4 |           to edit and publish the Letters of Clement in 1633. The
 21  2,4 |        Polycarp, and the Ignatian letters made it possible for Cotelier
 22  2,4 |    consisted of I-II Clement, the letters of Ignatius and Polycarp,
 23  2,5 |         he managed to write seven letters that, though of no great
 24  2,5 |       materials or forwarding his letters. But an Ephesian deacon
 25  2,5 |         there he wrote three more letters: one to the Church at Smyrna,
 26  2,5 |           Asian Churches to write letters of encouragement to his
 27  2,5 |      reflected and opposed in the letters of Ignatius and the letters
 28  2,5 |       letters of Ignatius and the letters and Gospel of John. Ignatius
 29  2,5 |          Ignatius insisted in his letters to the Trallians and the
 30  2,5 |            Ignatius speaks in his letters of the aid the brethren
 31  2,5 |           writing and sending his letters, and, of course, without
 32  2,5 |       Troas to write or carry his letters (Philad. II:2; Smyrn. 12:
 33  2,5 |       sending a collection of his letters to the church at Philippi.
 34  2,5 |           The free interchange of letters among the Churches of Asia,
 35  2,5 |       implied or reflected in the letters of Ignatius and Polycarp
 36  2,5 |      Greece, already were. Paul's letters to the Churches had led
 37  2,5 | communication by letter and these letters sometimes rose to the stature
 38  2,6 |           immediate sequel to the letters of Ignatius. Ignatius had
 39  2,6 |    Polycarp to send them whatever letters of Ignatius he could, and
 40  2,6 |          and he knows the Pauline letters, but Polycarp also knows
 41  2,6 |   Polycarp also knows the Pauline letters, including the Pastorals,
 42  2,6 |     letter really consists of two letters, one (chaps. 13-14). written
 43  2,7 |             Forms of the Ignatian Letters.~This brings up the matter
 44  2,7 |       forms in which the Ignatian letters have come down to us. Eusebius
 45  2,7 |          Eusebius speaks of seven letters (Church History iii. 36):
 46  2,7 |         of Ignatius, however, the letters begin with Smyrnaeans and
 47  2,7 |           by a string of spurious letters that cannot be dated earlier
 48  2,7 |        order in which the genuine letters thus appear-Smyrnaeans,
 49  2,7 |       send you, as you asked, the letters of Ignatius which were sent
 50  2,7 |          when he was absent wrote letters to you” (3:2). The collection
 51  2,7 |          with that of the Pauline letters; yet he also speaks of the
 52  2,7 |         great value the collected letters of Paul had possessed for
 53  2,7 |         as the place where Paul's letters had been collected and published.~
 54  2,7 |      churches and gathered up the letters of Ignatius. He tells the
 55  2,7 |           he is sending them “the letters of Ignatius which were sent
 56  2,7 |          others besides Ignatius' letters to himself and to his Church
 57  2,7 |      Troas had kept copies of the letters he wrote for him for the
 58  2,7 |          the Romans was among the letters Polycarp had in his possession
 59  2,7 |       other forms of the Ignatian letters illustrate their popularity
 60  2,7 |          from six to ten spurious letters ascribed to Ignatius and
 61  2,7 |      Syriac much abbreviated. The letters of Ignatius were, therefore,
 62  2,7 |                 The seven genuine letters, known to Eusebius in A.D.
 63  2,7 |         326.~·        These seven letters, accompanied by ten spurious
 64  2,7 |          ones.~·        The seven letters individually expanded and
 65  2,7 |   accompanied by several spurious letters.~·        In Syriac three
 66  2,7 |                   In Syriac three letters — Polycarp, Ephesians, Romans —
 67  2,7 |          copied with the Ignatian letters; indeed, no complete Greek
 68  2,8 |          eta (I H), the first two letters of Jesus' name, and the
 69  2,8 |        the usual fashion of Greek letters but in the informal epistolary
 70  2,8 |   epistolary style used in family letters, addressing its readers
 71  2,8 |           the Catholic or general letters, between Jude and the Revelation
 72  2,10|          sometimes in the form of letters such as the one about Polycarp,
 73  2,13|                         The Abgar Letters.~ The third century witnessed
 74  2,13|           this great claim by two letters, believed to have been exchanged
 75  2,13|    consciousness implied in these letters until the middle of the
 76  2,13|   inscription at Edessa, and both letters in an inscription at Philippi.
 77  2,14|                       Fragmentary Letters.~ Gnostic teachers also
 78  2,14|         teachers also wrote “open letters” to their disciples, and
 79  2,14|    preserved three fragments from letters of Valentinus in his Miscellanies.
 80  2,14|         true law of God.[1] Other letters have been discovered among
 81  2,14|          First Man.~ Beyond “open letters” such as these, there were
 82  2,14|       were naturally many private letters written by Christians-and,
 83  3   |     passage (chap. 13) as did two letters of Paul, II Thessalonians (
 84  4,4 |           of Hebrews in Ignatius' letters, and it is equally probable
 85  4,5 |      opposed and condemned in the letters of Ignatius and the Gospel
 86  4,5 |       Ignatius and the Gospel and Letters of John, which insist that
 87  4,7 |       Lord was a boy learning his letters and his teacher said, as
 88  4,9 |         accepted Paul's views and letters but came to hold a modified
 89  5,2 |       hardly anybody knew it. The letters to Timothy and Titus reflect
 90  5,2 |           and from composing such letters as might have been written
 91  5,2 |         to feel that the Pastoral Letters exaggerated Paul's views
 92  5,2 |           and Thecla, but the two letters exchanged between Paul and
 93  5,3 |           was acquainted with the letters to Timothy and Titus; in
 94  5,3 |         mentioned in the Pastoral Letters, in the Acts becomes his
 95  5,4 |     counterattack to the Pastoral Letters to Timothy and Titus. It
 96  5,4 |         of the Apostles, Pastoral Letters, Acts of Paul, Acts of John.~
 97  5,5 |          the Four Gospels and the letters of Paul, the Acts of the
 98  5,9 |        Homilies are introduced by letters from Peter and Clement to
 99  6,1 |         New Testament and the two Letters of Clement, for they are
100  6,1 |         trait they share with the Letters of Ignatius, with which
101  6,1 |         touches in the Gospel and Letters of John, and, of course,
102  6,2 |     Letter of Clement, making two letters from the church at Rome
103  6,2 |       Four Gospels, the principal letters of Paul, and I Peter. This
104  6,2 |    gospels, the principal Pauline letters, I Peter-and the “book of
105  8,3 |         to leadership in arts and letters. Tatian declares that all
106  8,4 |         great body and to add the letters of Paul to its scripture.
107  8,4 |        Gospel of Luke and the ten letters of Paul. He went to Rome
108  8,4 |            No reader of Ignatius' letters can suppose that Marcion
109 10,2 |        Acts (iii. 12. 15) and the letters of Paul. In fact, Irenaeus
110 10,2 |       gospels, the Acts, thirteen letters of Paul (including the three
111 10,3 |   Irenaeus also wrote a number of letters that, to judge by their
112 11,3 |          the rest of the Catholic letters and Barnabas and what is
113 11,3 |        also traces of some of his letters, the most important of which
114 12,1 |         studies, apologetics, and letters.~ ~
115 12,6 |                                   Letters.~ Origen's letters were
116 12,6 |                Letters.~ Origen's letters were also numerous and important.
117 12,6 |       mentions others. One of the letters, written to Fabianus, bishop
118 12,6 |          books. But, of all these letters, only two have been preserved:
119 12,7 |        the Four Gospels, fourteen letters of Paul (including Hebrews
120 12,7 |         including Hebrews and the letters to Timothy and Titus), the
121 12,7 |          overwhelming bulk of the letters. To this neglect of his
122 13,8 |         and acknowledged thirteen letters of Paul, but not Hebrews.
123 13,8 |           Acts and three Catholic letters — I Peter and I and II John.
124 13,9 |       late as A.D. 240, exchanged letters with him. He was a devout
125 13,9 |          and courts, and a man of letters.~ In A.D. 221r he published
126 13,9 |       wrote some very significant letters. One, addressed to a certain
127 13,11|           of Dionysius, including letters, only one or two letters
128 13,11|          letters, only one or two letters have come down to us in
129 13,11|         previously addressed four letters on Sabellianism to correspondents
130 13,11|  Dionysius dealt. In his numerous letters sent in all directions,
131 13,11|      tells of at least fifty such letters, some of them virtually
132 13,11|          treatises in the form of letters, which were written by Dionysius
133 13,11|  Dionysius took occasion in these letters to instruct the churches
134 13,11|           a whole series of these letters is mentioned by Eusebius (
135 13,11|          not only the bulk of his letters but, except for a few fragments,
136 14,6 |        the Gospel of Luke and ten letters of Paul in place of the
137 14,7 |            the Acts, and thirteen letters of Paul, besides I Peter,
138 14,8 |          a collection of Fronto's letters, written to the emperors
139 14,10|         the church at Carthage by letters and messengers, was able
140 14,10|     preserved in one of Cyprian's letters (Epist. 80): the various
141 14,11|                               His Letters.~ Into these twelve momentous
142 14,11|      cause. The collection of his letters contains eighty-one pieces,
143 14,11|    Cyprian's hand. The others are letters to him or to persons near
144 14,11|         problems of the day.~ The letters written or received by Cyprian
145 14,11|        the years from which these letters come, and the chronological
146 14,11|      readily comprehensible.[93]~ Letters 5-43 belong to the time
147 14,11|           which these thirty-nine letters were written has been pretty
148 14,11|         which he sent a number of letters in the course of these fifteen
149 14,11|         less than thirteen of his letters to his own people he collected
150 14,11|        again in these thirty-nine letters. One was the behavior of
151 14,11|          A second group of twenty letters (Nos. 44-61, 64, 66) can
152 14,11|         of 253. They comprise the letters exchanged between Cyprian
153 14,11|        treated.~ A third group of letters, Nos. 67-75, come from the
154 14,11|        matter.~ A fourth group of letters, Nos, 76-81, belongs to
155 14,11|           There remain only seven letters, 1-4, 62, 63, and 65, that
156 14,12|        Although some of Cyprian's letters run to considerable length
157 14,12|    treatises. They, too, like his letters, sprang from the practical
158 14,13|         them, and probably of the letters, must have lain before the
159 14,13|        thirty-four or thirty-five letters, concluding with the Life
160 14,14|       Gospels, the Acts, thirteen letters of Paul (that is, it did
161 14,14|        only two or three Catholic letters.~ Cyprian's great interest
162 14,15|          the church and wrote two letters in its name to Cyprian,
163 14,15|          to have written pastoral letters to his flock from some place
164 14,16|          or the beginning of 25o. Letters 30 and 36 (among the Letters
165 14,16|      Letters 30 and 36 (among the Letters of Cyprian) Novatian wrote
166 14,16|           of Modesty arc pastoral letters written to his people while
167 14,16|          know, aside from the two letters to Cvprian, we now possess
168 14,18|      Asclepiades, On Persecution, Letters to Probus (four books),
169 14,18|           to Probus (four books), Letters to Severus (two books),
170 14,18|           to Severus (two books), Letters to Demetrianus (two books),
171 14,20|        are the eight books of his letters: To Probus (four books),
172 14,20|        eighth book of Lactantius' letters To Demetrianus, so that
173 14,20|          that the three groups of letters — of four, two, and two
174 15,2 |     assembled more than a hundred letters by Origen (vi. 36. 3) and
175 15,3 |  Apostolic Fathers Clement, seven letters by Ignatius and one by Polycarp,
176 15,3 |           Pilate” (ii. 2) and the letters of Pliny and Trojan, but
177 15,3 |  Alexandrians he associates three letters by Alexander of Jerusalem (
178 15,4 |       which, taken apart from the letters of Paul-and the gospels,
179 16   |            no complete Greek text~Letters; Eusebius' collection of
180 16   |        Temptations; no text~Fifty Letters, most of them; no text~Nepos
181 16   |          no text~Grammar; no text~Letters to Probus, four books; no
182 16   |       Probus, four books; no text~Letters to Severus, two books; no
183 16   |       Severus, two books; no text~Letters to Demetrianus, two books;
184 16   |         as lost.~ ~   [1] For the letters of Valentinus and Ptolemaeus