Pastoral And General Epistles From The New Testament: A Latin-English, Verse By Verse Translation

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(This work includes Latin-English versions of 1 and 2 Timothy; Titus; Philemon; Hebrews; James; 1 and 2 Peter; 1, 2, and 3 John; and Jude.)These twelve letters, tucked into the New Testament between Paul'slonger correspondence and the Book of Revelation, are far frompopular today. A world obsessed by lust, intent on throwing off allrestrictions, finds these Pastoral and General Epistles offensive.Churches that reduce the gospel to a feel-good message and turnJesus into a libertine find the letters at best outdated, and at worse, positively wrong. Today's Christians want to invent a new way, ratherthan be reminded of a way that is at least as old as the church itself.That, I believe, is precisely why we need to hear them anew. In thePastoral and General Epistles, the austere purity of the Christian wayis expressed clearly. The Roman era which these letters addressedwas, like ours, marked by brutal lust, accompanied by the breakingdown of time-honored values and systems. When everything seemedup-for-grabs, the simplicity of the gospel lived out by pure heartsoffered an alternative that endured, long after the chaos of the timeshad been swallowed up in history.These letters still sound a call to a different way of life, embodied inChrist, ordered in the Word, and rooted in the Holy Spirit. For thosehumble enough to lay aside their own lusts and live by the gospelstandard, that way remains as powerful as ever.

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