Assertion: epistle | /r/HasProperty | written to christian
Facets:
value: because of their beliefs
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: The Epistle to the Romans was written to Christians residing in the city of Rome (1:7, 15).
text: This was an important message for this time, as the epistle was written for Christians living in a hostile world, subject to arrest, torture, and execution because of their beliefs.
text: But whether it ought in this case to be answered in the affirmative, is another matter; and I really believe that it ought not: for if the Jude who wrote this epistle had been himself an apostle, and brother of an apostle, he would hardly have called himself, in an epistle written to Christians, simply ‘Jude, the brother of James’ without adding the title apostle.