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Epistle vs Philemon - What's the difference?

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epistle

English

(wikipedia epistle)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter.
  • * 1748 — (David Hume), , Section III, § 5.
    • he may be hurried from this plan by the vehemence of thought, as in an ode, or drop it carlessly, as in an epistle or essay
  • (Christianity) One of the letters included as a book of the New Testament.
  • * 1956 — Werner Keller (translated by William Neil), The Bible as History , revised English edition, Chapter 41, page 358
    • Even last century scholars had begun to search for the cities in Asia Minor whose names have become so familiar to the Chistian world through the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of St. Paul.

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    Verb

    (epistl)
  • (obsolete) To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.
    • (Milton)

    philemon

    Translingual

    (wikipedia Philemon)

    Proper noun

    • See also

    *(Friarbird) *("Philemon" species on Wikimedia)

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