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Pastoral Epistle

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noun

  1. any one of three New Testament books, I or II Timothy or Titus, that stress pastoral and ecclesiastical concerns.


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He had read the Pastoral Epistle that supposedly made a forceful argument against female ministers, and felt that the text was less authoritative than it had been portrayed to be.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019

A Pastoral Epistle, written by command of archbishop Wulfstan.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

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