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The New Testament uses a number of athletic metaphors in discussing Christianity, especially in the Pauline epistles and the Epistle to the Hebrews.Such metaphors also appear in the writings of contemporary philosophers, such as Epictetus and Philo, [2] drawing on the tradition of the Olympic Games; [3] this may have influenced New Testament use of the imagery.
Galatians 3:28 is the twenty-eighth verse of the third chapter in the Epistle to the Galatians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is a widely commented-upon biblical passage among Paul's statements. [1] It is sometimes cited in various Christian discussions about gender equality and racism.
Acts 20 is the twentieth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the Christian New Testament of the Bible.It records the third missionary journey of Paul the Apostle.The narrator and his companions ("we") play an active part in the developments in this chapter. [1]
In the Latin version of the Acts of Paul and Thecla it is added that he had a red, florid face. In The History of the Contending of Saint Paul, his countenance is described as "ruddy with the ruddiness of the skin of the pomegranate". [245] The Acts of Saint Peter confirms that Paul had a bald and shining head, with red hair. [246]
Paul starts first with God's wrath that comes deservedly on the state religion of the Gentiles (20–32), drawn against the background of the fall of the first human beings in to sin. [32] Several scholars believe verses 18 to 32 (and chapter 2) are a non-Pauline interpolation, but this is a minority position. [33]
[4] [5] As a pseudepigraphical work incorrectly attributed to Paul, the verse is often described as deutero-Pauline literature [6] or as a pastoral epistle. New Testament scholar Marcus Borg contends that this verse fits poorly with Paul's more positive references to Christian women and may be a later interpolation rather than part of the ...
Paul was accompanied by at least two companions following him from Macedonia, including Aristarchus (verse 2) and the unnamed "we"-narrator (verse 1). [3] The narrator's customary nautical detail is shown by noting that the first ship they boarded for the coastal voyage originally came from Adramyttium (at the Aegean north coast towards the Troas, verse 2), and that the second came from ...
It is Written: Scripture Citing Scripture: Essays in Honour of Barnabas Lindars, SSF. CUP Archive. ISBN 9780521323475. Bøe, Sverre (2001). Gog and Magog: Ezekiel 38–39 as pre-text for Revelation 19, 17–21 and 20, 7–10. Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 9783161475207. Gmirkin, Russell (2006).