History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100.

with the familiar tradition of Jerome concerning the apostle of love, ever exhorting the congregation, in his advanced age, to l ...

beginning before the creation, and looks out into the farthest future beyond death and the resurrection. He writes with the auth ...

Christological: Colossians and Philippians. Ecclesiological: Ephesians (in part also Corinthians). Eschatological: Thessalonian ...

Beza: "When I more closely consider the whole genius and character of Paul’s style, I must confess that I have found no such sub ...

To this church Paul, as its spiritual father, full of affection for his inexperienced children, wrote in familiar conversational ...

epistle of ours (2:15). If any will not work, neither let him eat (3:10). Be not weary in well-doing (3:13). The God of peace sa ...

advice concerning marriage and celibacy without binding the conscience (having "no commandment of the Lord," 7:25); discusses th ...

II. The Second Epistle to the Corinthians was written in the summer or autumn of the same year, 57, from some place in Macedonia ...

§ 91. The Epistles to the Galatians. Comp. the introduction to my Com. on Gal. (1882). Galatians and Romans discuss the doctrine ...

nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love" (5:6). "And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace be upon them, and merc ...

This letter stands justly at the head of the Pauline Epistles. It is more comprehensive and systematic than the others, and admi ...

Ephesians, Philemon, and Philippians. He thus turned the prison into a pulpit, sent inspiration and comfort to his distant congr ...

matured form.^1145 But Ephesians has likewise striking affinities in thought and language with Romans in the doctrine of justifi ...

Colossae,^1149 once likewise famous, was at the time of Paul the smallest of the three neighboring cities, and has almost disapp ...

ancient church, as rationalism has done in modern times. It differed from the Judaizing heresy which he opposed in Galatians and ...

whole body, but not necessarily all individuals (Rom. 11:25); "the pleroma of the Godhead," i.e., the fulness or plenitude of al ...

with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God (3:1).—When Christ, who is our lif ...

the individual Christians; children are to love their parents as individual Christians are to love Christ and the church. The fu ...

most evangelical of evangelicals, and the broadest of the broad, because most comprehensive in his grasp and furthest removed fr ...

that mystery of the gospel which it was given to St. Paul for the first time to proclaim in all its fulness to the Gentile world ...