Assertion: epistle | /r/HasProperty | addressed to church
Facets:
value: in modern-day greece
type: LOCATION
value: in thessalonica
type: LOCATION
value: in south galatia
type: LOCATION
value: primarily
type: DEGREE
value: in tralles
type: LOCATION
value: in corinth
type: LOCATION
value: in christians
type: LOCATION
value: in the surrounding province of achaea
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Even when addressed to churches Paul's epistles were as spontaneous and intimately and affectionately personal as the ordinary correspondence.
text: The epistle is attributed to Paul the Apostle and a co-author named Timothy, and is addressed to the church in Corinth and Christians in the surrounding province of Achaea, in modern-day Greece.[2Cor.1:1]
text: The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians (often abbreviated Trallians) is an epistle attributed to Ignatius, a second-century Bishop of Antioch and martyr, and addressed to the church in Tralles.
text: Therefore as the epistle was not, and could not be, addressed to Ephesus, the conclusion is that it was addressed to some church, and that it was not a treatise sent to the Christian church generally.
text: It contains no references to the peculiar circumstances of the Ephesian church, but might be addressed to any of the churches founded by Paul.
text: It is doubtful, to say the least, whether this epistle ought to bear the title which it has; for there is a total absence of those personal greetings which abound in Paul's other epistles addressed to churches which he planted; and this is unaccountable if he was writing to a church with which he had labored more than two years--longer than he stayed with any other.
text: they stand at the head of the nine epistles addressed to churches, and are declared to have been written to forbid heretical schism (primum omnium
text: He says that “we hold, then, that the Epistle to the Galatians is primarily addressed to the churches in South Galatia,” but allows for it also to be sent to the disciples in the north
text: Some maintain that it was addressed to Ephesus and the churches of which this city was, so to speak, the metropolis (Michelis, Harless, and Henle), while others hold that it was sent to the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse (H. Holtzmann) or to the circle of Christian communities within and around Colossæ and Laodicea (Godet, Haupt, Zahn, and Belser); or again to the faithful of Asia Minor (B. Weiss) or to all the Gentile-Christian Churches (Von Soden).
text: However, we do not believe that the Epistle in question was addressed to the churches immediately surrounding Colossæ, as the perils which threatened the faith of the Colossians virtually endangered that of the neighbouring communities, and wherefore, then, two letter differing in tone and object?
text: The epistle is attributed to Paul the Apostle, and is addressed to the church in Thessalonica, in modern-day Greece.
text: Moreover, the examination of the Epistle does not warrant the belief that it was addressed to the church in which the Apostle had sojourned longest.