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  1  PreNAB                     |          books as so many personal letters to his own children" (Divino
  2     His, 1Kin   21:    8    |                    8 ~So she wrote letters in Ahab's name and, having
  3     His, 1Kin   21:    9    |           is what she wrote in the letters: "Proclaim a fast and set
  4     His, 1Kin   21:   11    |            in writing, through the letters she had sent them. ~
  5     His, 2Kin   10:    1    |          in Samaria. Jehu prepared letters and sent them to the city
  6     His, 2Kin   20:   12    |     Hezekiah had been ill, he sent letters and gifts to him. ~
  7     His, 2Chr   30:    1    |          and Judah, and even wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh
  8     His, 2Chr   30:    6    | Accordingly the couriers, with the letters written by the king and
  9     His, 2Chr   32:   17    |             17 ~for he had written letters to deride the LORD, the
 10     His,  Neh    2:    7    |            it please the king, let letters be given to me for the governors
 11     His,  Neh    2:    9    |           and presented the king's letters to them. The king also sent
 12     His,  Neh    6:   17    |           same time, however, many letters were going to Tobiah from
 13     His,  Neh    6:   17    |      nobles of Judah, and Tobiah's letters were reaching them, ~
 14     His,  Neh    6:   19    |            I said; and Tobiah sent letters trying to frighten me. ~ ~
 15     His,  Est  Int          |           portions preceded by the letters A through F indicate the
 16     His,  Est    1:   22    |                      22 ~5 He sent letters to all the royal provinces,
 17     His,  Est    3:   13    |                                13 ~Letters were sent by couriers to
 18     His,  Est    B:    6    |            indicated to you in the letters of Haman, who is in charge
 19     His,  Est    8:    5    |            be issued to revoke the letters which that schemer Haman,
 20     His,  Est    8:   10    |                          10 ~These letters, which he wrote in the name
 21     His,  Est    8:   11    |                       11 ~In these letters the king authorized the
 22     His,  Est    9:   20    |     recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews, both near
 23     His, 1Mac    1:   44    |          king sent messengers with letters to Jerusalem and to the
 24     His, 1Mac    8:   16(8) |        with embassies and answered letters, hence the impression the
 25     His, 1Mac    9:   60    |        with a large force, he sent letters secretly to all his allies
 26     His, 1Mac   12:    2    |                    2 ~He also sent letters to Sparta and other places
 27     His, 1Mac   12:    4    |            4 ~The Romans gave them letters addressed to the authorities
 28     His, 1Mac   15:   15    |          companions left Rome with letters such as this addressed to
 29     His, 1Mac   15:   22    |            The consul sent similar letters to Kings Demetrius, Attalus,
 30     His, 1Mac   16:   19    |          the army officers he sent letters inviting them to come to
 31     His, 2Mac  Int          |          Maccabees consists of two letters sent by the Jews of Jerusalem
 32     His, 2Mac  Int          |        later scribe prefixed these letters to the narrative proper.
 33     His, 2Mac  Int          |         the more recent of the two letters. In any case, Jason's five-volume
 34     His, 2Mac  Int          |                       I.           Letters to the Jews in Egypt (2
 35     His, 2Mac    2:   13    |            of David, and the royal letters about sacred offerings. ~
 36   WisdB                     |          were called sages. Men of letters, scribes, skilled in the
 37   WisdB,  Psa    9:    1(1) |           alphabet (though several letters have no corresponding stanza).
 38   WisdB,  Psa   25:   22(3) |          letter alphabet. Thus the letters aleph, lamed, and pe open
 39   WisdB,  Son    1:    2(2) |             1:2-8:14] The marginal letters indicate the speaker of
 40   WisdB,  Sir   45:   11    |          To commemorate in incised letters each of the tribes of Israel; ~
 41  ProphB,  Isa    8:    1    |         inscribe on it in ordinary letters: "Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz." ~
 42  ProphB,  Isa    8:    1(1) |                        1] Ordinary letters: easily read by all. Maher-shalal-hash-baz:
 43  ProphB,  Isa   39:    1    |         from his sickness, he sent letters and gifts to him. ~
 44  ProphB,  Jer   25:   26(6) |         from babel by substituting letters of the Hebrew alphabet in
 45  ProphB,  Jer   29:   25    |           Israel: Because you sent letters on your own authority to
 46  ProphB,  Jer   34:    7(1) |           found at Lachish several letters written on pottery fragments
 47  ProphB,  Lam  Int          |      stanzas begin with successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet from
 48  ProphB,  Eze    4:    5(1) |            Assyria in 722 B.C. The letters in the Hebrew phrase for
 49  ProphB,  Nah    1:    2(1) |          verses beginning with the letters of the second half of the
 50   NTPre                     |           figures of speech in the letters of Peter, James, and Jude,
 51   NTPre                     |            if only to render these letters intelligibly.~Without seeking
 52    Gosp                     |             followed by twenty-one letters that are attributed to Paul,
 53    Gosp                     |           similar treatment of the letters of the New Testament is
 54    Gosp                     |       serve as a framework for the letters of the New Testament. This
 55    Gosp                     |     obscures the point that Paul's letters were written before any
 56    Gosp,  Mat    1:   17(5) |      numerical value of the Hebrew letters forming the name of David.
 57    Gosp,  Mat   10:    2(3) |          described. In the Pauline letters, the place where the term
 58    Gosp,  Mat   16:   18(13)|           is called in the Pauline letters (1 Cor 1:12; 3:22; 9:5;
 59    Gosp,  Mar  Int          |              He appears in Pauline letters (2 Tim 4:11; Philippians
 60    Gosp,  Joh    7:   15(6) |       literally, "How does he know letters without having learned?"
 61    Gosp,  Act    9:    1(1) |    justification by faith (see the letters to the Galatians and Romans)
 62    Gosp,  Act    9:    2    |               2 ~and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus,
 63    Gosp,  Act   13:   38(11)|        same as that used in Paul's letters to speak of the experience
 64    Gosp,  Act   16:   11(4) |          Paul addressed one of his letters (see Introduction to the
 65    Gosp,  Act   22:    5    |          from them I even received letters to the brothers and set
 66    Gosp,  Act   28:   21    |          him, "We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor
 67   NTLet                     |                      New Testament Letters~ ~In the New Testament canon,
 68   NTLet                     |    documents that take the form of letters or epistles. Most of these
 69   NTLet                     |           Most of these are actual letters, but some are more like
 70   NTLet                     |          treatises in the guise of letters. In a few cases even some
 71   NTLet                     |         writers. The New Testament letters usually begin with a greeting
 72   NTLet                     |         Fourteen of the twenty-one letters have been traditionally
 73   NTLet                     |         and 1 Timothy.~Four of the letters in the Pauline corpus (Ephesians,
 74   NTLet                     |          caring for the flock. The letters of the Pauline corpus are
 75   NTLet                     |           the end.~The other seven letters of the New Testament that
 76   NTLet                     |            are most of the Pauline letters, but to a wider audience;
 77   NTLet                     |       Introduction to the catholic letters. Three of them (1-2-3 John)
 78   NTLet                     |     Johannine corpus. The catholic letters, like those of the Pauline
 79   NTLet                     |            but the three Johannine letters are kept together and Jude
 80   NTLet                     |            at the end.~The genuine letters of Paul are earlier in date
 81   NTLet                     |            the other New Testament letters are more difficult to determine,
 82   NTLet,  Rom  Int          |            Introduction~Of all the letters of Paul, that to the Christians
 83   NTLet,  Rom  Int          |          11). Yet, like all Paul's letters, Romans too arose out of
 84   NTLet,  Rom    1:    1(1) |                     1-7] In Paul's letters the greeting or praescriptio
 85   NTLet,  Rom    1:    8(6) |                  8] In Greco-Roman letters, the greeting was customarily
 86   NTLet,  Rom    1:    8(6) |           by a prayer. The Pauline letters usually include this element (
 87   NTLet, 1Cor  Int          |           wrote at least two other letters to Corinth (see 1 Cor 5:
 88   NTLet, 1Cor  Int          |          holds that the additional letters are actually contained within
 89   NTLet, 1Cor    1:    6(3) |     preaching and instruction, his letters, and the life he leads as
 90   NTLet, 1Cor   16:    3    |        whom you have approved with letters of recommendation to take
 91   NTLet, 2Cor  Int          |            same style in his other letters (cf especially Romans 8:
 92   NTLet, 2Cor  Int          |       incorporates several briefer letters sent to Corinth over a certain
 93   NTLet, 2Cor  Int          |          took care to gather those letters together and impose some
 94   NTLet, 2Cor    3:    1    |            do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you
 95   NTLet, 2Cor    3:    2(2) |                   2-3] Mention of "letters of recommendation" generates
 96   NTLet, 2Cor    3:    7    |       ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, was so glorious
 97   NTLet, 2Cor    8:    1(1) |      contain what appear to be two letters on the subject. In them
 98   NTLet, 2Cor   10:    9    |            frightening you through letters. ~
 99   NTLet, 2Cor   10:   10    |         For someone will say, "His letters are severe and forceful,
100   NTLet, 2Cor   10:   11    |        what we are in word through letters when absent, that we also
101   NTLet, 2Cor   11:    5(6) |           Jerusalem and even carry letters of recommendation from them.
102   NTLet,  Gal    6:   11    |                See with what large letters I am writing to you in my
103   NTLet,  Gal    6:   11(7) |                          11] Large letters: in contrast to the finer
104   NTLet,  Gal    6:   11(7) |            point. The larger Greek letters make Paul's message even
105   NTLet,  Eph    1:    1(1) |           used at the beginning of letters, see the note on Romans
106   NTLet,  Phi  Int          |          when most of Paul's major letters were written.~There is also
107   NTLet,  Phi  Int          |      composite from parts of three letters by Paul to the Philippians.
108   NTLet,  Phi  Int          |          to these three underlying letters, which an editor presumably
109   NTLet,  Phi    1:    3(4) |           8-15 and all the Pauline letters except Galatians, a thanksgiving
110   NTLet,  Col  Int          |         the Introductions to these letters). Traditionally the house
111   NTLet,  Col    1:    1(1) |            at the beginning of his letters, see the note on Romans
112   NTLet, 2The  Int          |      written first or that the two letters are addressed to different
113   NTLet, 1Tim  Int          |             Introduction~The three letters, First and Second Timothy
114   NTLet, 1Tim  Int          |       corpus. In the collection of letters by the Apostle to the Gentiles,
115   NTLet, 1Tim  Int          |       references in Paul's earlier letters (though not Colossians and
116   NTLet, 1Tim  Int          |          and Ephesians). The three letters are addressed not to congregations
117   NTLet, 1Tim  Int          |            Latin, pastores). These letters were first named "Pastoral
118   NTLet, 1Tim  Int          |           the attribution of these letters to Paul has been questioned.
119   NTLet, 1Tim  Int          |         expressions found in these letters. A second group believes,
120   NTLet, 1Tim  Int          |         church organization in the letters is not as advanced as the
121   NTLet, 1Tim  Int          |         the unquestionably genuine letters of Paul. Other scholars,
122   NTLet, 1Tim  Int          |         for the composition of the letters. A fourth group of scholars
123   NTLet, 1Tim  Int          |       scholars believes that these letters are the work of a compiler,
124   NTLet,  Tit  Int          |          to heresy, later than the letters of Paul himself and 2 Timothy.
125   NTLet,  Heb  Int          |   manuscripts to the collection of letters by Paul. Although no author
126   NTLet,  Heb  Int          |         between Hebrews and Paul's letters, the alternation of doctrinal
127   NTLet,  Heb   10:   25(13)|         also occurs in the Pauline letters, e.g., Romans 2:16; 1 Cor
128   CathL                     |                       The Catholic Letters~In addition to the thirteen
129   CathL                     |           addition to the thirteen letters attributed to Paul and the
130   CathL                     |     Testament contains seven other letters. Three of these are attributed
131   CathL                     |         term to refer to all seven letters. ~The reason for the term "
132   CathL                     |          the perception that these letters, unlike those of Paul, which
133   CathL                     |           do not appear to be real letters in the modern sense of the
134   CathL                     |            to include the catholic letters in the New Testament canon.
135   CathL                     |          all seven of the catholic letters have since been acknowledged
136   CathL, 1Pet    4:   11(5) |            not occur at the end of letters (the only examples are 2
137   CathL, 2Pet  Int          |      himself accepted both Petrine letters as canonical, he testifies
138   CathL, 2Pet  Int          |             A collection of Paul's letters exists and appears to be
139   CathL, 2Pet    3:   16    |              as he does in all his letters. In them there are some
140   CathL, 2Pet    3:   16(12)|           Christian community. The letters of Paul are thus here placed
141   CathL, 1Joh  Int          |           most other New Testament letters.~The purpose of the letter
142   CathL, 2Joh               |     problems, the Second and Third Letters of John are of the same
143   CathL, 2Joh               |            John the apostle, these letters were probably written by
144   CathL, 2Joh               |             are plausible for both letters. The Second Letter is addressed
145   CathL, 2Joh    0:    1(1) |   beginning of other New Testament letters (1 Peter 1:1; Titus 1:1).
146   CathL, 3Joh               |          contrast to the other two letters of John, this work was addressed
147   CathL, 3Joh               |          refuses to receive either letters or friends of the Presbyter.
148   CathL,  Rev  Int          |         two books. The tone of the letters to the seven churches (Rev
149   CathL,  Rev  Int          |               Prologue (Rev 1:1-3) Letters to the Churches of Asia (
150   CathL,  Rev    1:    8(6) |          Omega: the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. In
151   CathL,  Rev    2:    1(1) |            3:22] Each of the seven letters follows the same pattern:
152   CathL,  Rev   13:   18(8) |                    18] Each of the letters of the alphabet in Hebrew
153   CathL,  Rev   13:   18(8) |           possible combinations of letters will add up to 666, and
154   CathL,  Rev   13:   18(8) |            of whose name in Hebrew letters gives the required sum. (
155   CathL,  Rev   21:    7(7) |           conclusions of the seven letters (Rev 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3: