The earliest record of a settlement at Ajaccio having a name ancestral to its name is the exhortation in Epistle 77 written in 601 CE of Gregory the great to the Defensor Boniface, one of two known rectors of the early Corsican church, not to leave Aleria and Adjacium without bishops.

In the Epistle to Titus, Apollos is mentioned with Zenas as bearer of the letter to Crete.

" He that honoureth the bishop is honoured of God ; he that doeth aught without the knowledge of the bishop rendereth service to the devil " — Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnans 9: 1.

It is used in the Epistle to the, Epistle to the, and the Epistle to the as the starting point of the concept of faith.

Clement of Alexandria ascribed the Epistle of Barnabas to him, but that is highly improbable.

He is also traditionally associated with the Epistle of Barnabas, although modern scholars think it more likely that that epistle was written in Alexandria in the 130s.

It also set out in full the " propers " ( that is the parts of the service which varied week by week or, at times, daily throughout the Church's Year ): the Collect and the Epistle and Gospel readings for the Sunday Communion Service.

The Eastern Orthodox books included in the Old Testament are the seven deuterocanonical books listed above, plus 3 Maccabees and 1 Esdras ( also included in the Clementine Vulgate ), while Baruch is divided from the Epistle of Jeremiah, making a total of 49 Old Testament books in contrast with the Protestant 39-book canon.

The Epistle of James (), usually referred to simply as James, is a Letter in the New Testament.

* the cultured Greek language of the Epistle, it is contended, could not have been written by a Jerusalemite Jew.

The Epistle of Jude, often shortened to Jude, is the penultimate book of the New Testament and is attributed to Jude, the brother of James the Just.

The Epistle of Jude is held as canonical in the Christian Church.

The Epistle title is written as follows: " Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James " ( NRSV ).

The Epistle of Jude is a brief book of only a single chapter with 25 verses.

It is generally accepted by scholars that the author of the Epistle of Jude was familiar with the Book of Enoch and was influenced by it in thought and diction.

In his First Epistle to the Corinthians ( c 54-55 ), Paul the Apostle gives the earliest recorded description of Jesus ' Last Supper: " The Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ' This is my body which is for you.

The Epistle to the Ephesians, often shortened to Ephesians, is the tenth book of the New Testament.

In the Epistle to the Romans Paul writes from the point of view of the demonstration of the righteousness of God — his covenant faithfulness and saving justice — in the gospel ; the author of Ephesians writes from the perspective of union with Christ, who is the head of the true church.

The Epistle to the Hebrews is one of the books in the New Testament.

The central thought of the entire Epistle is the doctrine of the Person of Christ and his role as mediator between God and humanity.

The Epistle to the Galatians, often shortened to Galatians, is the ninth book of the New Testament.

The Epistle of Paul to Titus, usually referred to simply as Titus, is one of the three Pastoral Epistles ( with 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy ) traditionally attributed to Saint Paul and is part of the New Testament.

The Second Epistle of John, often referred to as Second John and often written 2 John, is a book of the New Testament attributed to John the Evangelist, traditionally thought to be the author of the Gospel of John and the other two epistles of John.

The Third Epistle of John, often referred to as Third John and written 3 John, is a book of the New Testament attributed to John the Evangelist, traditionally thought to be the author of the Gospel of John and the other two epistles of John.

* The year the First Epistle of Peter is traditionally believed to be written.

The Epistle of James in the New Testament is traditionally attributed to him, and he is a principal author of the Apostolic Decree of Acts 15.

In 1 Peter 5: 13 Babylon is designated as the place from which that Epistle was written, but this has traditionally been interpreted as an example of the figurative sense of " Babylon ", as a metaphor for Rome.

The Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy, usually referred to simply as Second Timothy and often written 2 Timothy, is one of the three Pastoral Epistles traditionally attributed to Saint Paul, and is part of the New Testament.

For each subsequent century, more and more manuscripts survive that contain a portion or all of the books that were held to be part of the New Testament at that time ( for example, the New Testament of the 4th-century Codex Sinaiticus, once a complete Bible, contains the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas ), though occasionally these manuscripts contain other works as well ( e. g., Papyrus 72 and the Crosby-Schøyen Codex ).

In Mormonism, unlike most other Christian denominations, the Melchizedek priesthood is thought to be held by unextraordinary mortals and not solely by either pre-Aaronic priests such as Melchizedek, or Jesus alone, as most Christians interpret the Epistle to the Hebrews.

This priesthood was so named, according to a revelation, because Melchizedek " was such a great high priest " and ".. out of respect or reverence to the name of the Supreme Being, to avoid the too frequent repetition of his name ..." This priesthood was thought to be the order of priesthood held by Jesus, and a distinction was made between the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods, which derives in part from the Epistle to the Hebrews, whose author argues that Jesus arose " after the order of Melchizedec, and not ... after the order of Aaron.

Christopher Hitchens died in 2011, and at a memorial service held for him in New York his brother read a passage from St Paul's Epistle to the Philippians.

St. Paulinus of Nola, writing after 409, refers to " the thorns with which Our Saviour was crowned " as relics held in honour along with the Cross to which he was nailed and the pillar at which he was scourged ( Epistle Macarius in Migne, Patrologia Latina, LXI, 407 ).

With some advice thereon, extracted from the Epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the year 1748., 1760

The Epistle to the Galatians is likewise directed at an area of modern Turkey which once held an established Jewish population.

Martin Luther and some modern scholars have proposed Apollos as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, rather than Barnabas, another contender.

Traditional scholars have argued the letter's audience was Jewish Christians, as early as the end of the 2nd century ( hence its title, " The Epistle to the Hebrews ").

" Thence he would have gone to Ephesus, where he left Timothy, and from Ephesus to Macedonia, where he wrote the First Epistle to Timothy, and thence, according to the superscription of this epistle, to Nicopolis in Epirus, from which place he wrote to Titus, about 66 or 67.

Some manuscripts have a subscription at the end of the Epistle:

In fact, Origen would have possibly included in his list of “ inspired writings ” other texts which were kept out by the likes of Eusebius, including the Epistle of Barnabas, Shepherd of Hermas, and 1 Clement.

Several ancient texts purporting to be the missing " Epistle to the Laodiceans " have been known to have existed, most of which are now lost.

Some scholars have suggested that this refers to the canonical Epistle to the Ephesians, contending that it was a circular letter ( an encyclical ) to be read to many churches in the Laodicean area.

The Epistle may include marriage as an apostolic practice in 1 Corinthians 9: 5, " Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas ( Peter )?

This work should not be confused with the surviving Epistle of Barnabas, which may have been written in 2nd century Alexandria.

It is not indeed right to overlook the fact that some have rejected the Epistle to the Hebrews, saying that it is disputed by the church of Rome, on the ground that it was not written by Paul.

By the early 200s, Origen may have been using the same twenty-seven books as in the Catholic New Testament canon, though there were still disputes over the canonicity of the Letter to the Hebrews, Epistle of James, II Peter, II John and III John and the Book of Revelation, known as the Antilegomena.

In fact, Origen would have possibly included in his list of " inspired writings " other texts which were kept out by the likes of Eusebius, including the Epistle of Barnabas, Shepherd of Hermas, and 1 Clement.

Those who see biblical support for the doctrine of natural law often point to Paul's Epistle to the Romans: " For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another.

Similar counsel is repeated in the first chapter of the Epistle of Titus ; however, the redactor of 1 Corinthians ( chapter 7, verse 2 ) writes, " Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

In the earliest known Christian document, the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, Paul seems to envisage that he and the Christians he was writing to would see the resurrection of the dead within their own lifetimes: " For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

He may also have printed Burlington Gate ( 1731 ), evoked by Alexander Pope's Epistle to Lord Burlington, and defending Lord Chandos, who is therein satirized.

If the Epistle and the Gospel have been read in Latin, it is customary for the priest to read a vernacular translation of at least the Gospel, before giving the sermon.

The Saturday and Sunday following December 25 have special Epistle and Gospel readings assigned to them.

They accepted the four Gospels, fourteen Epistles of Paul, the three Epistles of John, James, Jude, and an Epistle to the Laodiceans, which they professed to have.

The Epistle reading is always linked to a reading from the Gospel, though some services, such as Matins, will have a Gospel lesson, but no Epistle.