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The Areopagus sermon refers to a sermon delivered by Apostle Paul in Athens, at the Areopagus, and recounted in Acts 17:16–34. [1] [2] The Areopagus sermon is the most dramatic and most fully-reported speech of the missionary career of Saint Paul and followed a shorter address in Lystra recorded in Acts 14:15–17. [3]
The Epistle to the Laodiceans is a possible writing of Paul the Apostle, the original existence of which is inferred from an instruction in the Epistle to the Colossians that the congregation should send their letter to the believing community in Laodicea, and likewise obtain a copy of the letter "from Laodicea" (Greek: ἐκ Λαοδικείας, ek Laodikeas).
[note 12] Marcion asserted that Paul was the only apostle who had rightly understood the new message of salvation as delivered by Christ. [374] Marcion believed Jesus was the savior sent by God, and Paul the Apostle was his chief apostle, but he rejected the Hebrew Bible and the God of Israel.
The Epistle to the Colossians mentions Laodicea as one of the communities of concern for Paul the Apostle. The city was destroyed in an earthquake in around AD 60, and subsequently rebuilt. It was eventually destroyed during the invasions of the Turks and Mongols during the second millennium, and is now a ruin. This photograph taken in 2020 ...
In writing to the Colossians, Paul the Apostle sends greetings to them through a Laodicean named Nymphas and the church at their house (4:15). He additionally greets Archippus, who might also be from Laodicea (4:17), and he instructs the Colossians to exchange his letter with one he has written to the Laodiceans (4:16). This would indicate a ...
On the basis of their language, content, and other factors, the pastoral epistles are considered by skeptical scholars [9] as having been not written by Paul, but written after his death. [10] The Second Epistle to Timothy, however, is sometimes thought to be more likely than the other two to have been written by Paul. [ 11 ] )
A number of scholars have argued that from biographic details from Paul, he likely suffered from some physical impediment such as vision loss or damaged hands and Paul does explicitly state, or even names, in multiple epistles that he used secretaries, which was a common practice in the Greco-Roman world; likely explaining the epistles that are ...
Laodicean Church, early Christians in Laodicea on the Lycus; Epistle to the Laodiceans, an apocryphal epistle attributed to Paul the Apostle; Council of Laodicea, a synod held about 363–364 CE; A Laodicean, an 1881 novel by Thomas Hardy; Laodice (disambiguation) Ladoceia, a town of ancient Arcadia, Greece