The five New Testament epistles (James, I and II Peter, I John, and Jude) that were addressed to the universal church rather than to particular Christian communities
Epistle comes from the Latin word epistola, which simply means a letter (as in written correspondence) The epistles of the New Testament follow the form for letters in the first century Letters in those days did not come in envelopes, so they began with the name of the sender, followed by the name of the recipient, and then a greeting (The Epistle to the Hebrews lacks these features ) After the body, the letter contained detailed greetings to the recipients Paul subtly reworded the usual greeting, “greetings to you,” so that it read “grace to you ”
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a verse epistle imitates the form of a personal letter, addressed to someone in particular, often very personal and occasional, and sometimes dated, with a location affixed Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" can hardly be bettered
A letter - in the early Church letters were written to people or churches (e g by the apostle Paul or John) and they have now become books of the Bible in the New Testament
In the Bible, the Epistles are a series of books in the New Testament which were originally written as letters to the early Christians. one of the letters in the New Testament of the Bible. a long or important letter (epistole , from epistellein )