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Apostle Paul

Apostle Paul

1 7.2
A Christian leader who taught non-Jewish people and wrote letters to early churches
  • proper noun
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  • To argue, then, that Jesus accepted any sexual activity other than the monogamous, for-life, no-divorce, no-remarriage, fruitful kind depicted in Matthew 5 and 19 and by the Apostle Paul is pretty absurd.

Examples

  • Apostle Paul wrote many letters to early Christians, sharing his teachings and advice.

  • In 2 Cor. 6:14-18, the Apostle Paul said: "Don't team up with those who are unbelievers."

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  • Fourth, the Apostle Paul also explicitly denied that Yeshuah was God:

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  • I do believe, however, that many Christians have developed the exact attitude which the Apostle Paul cautioned us about.

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  • We should imitate the Apostle Paul's mindset as reflected when he wrote, "...

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  • Now that he knows the basic storyline behind the conversion of the Apostle Paul, though, our son is able to describe in fairly impressive detail what exactly is going on in the drawing.

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  • The Apostle Paul, in correcting a false understanding of work among the Christians in Thessaloniki, wrote:

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  • There is one place in Scripture where the Apostle Paul seems to imply that the salvation of his readers is an irrevocable, past, present, and future event.

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  • The two passages that we read in I Timothy and II Timothy are a warning message from the Apostle Paul to the young minister Timothy, who was leading the church at Ephesus.

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  • John F. Walvoord states, "Apostasy, of course, was already present in the time that Paul lived, but with the progress of the present age, in spite of the dissemination of the truth and the availability of Scripture, the world will continue to follow the sinful description which the Apostle Paul gave here."

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Synonyms

Paul
vsApostle Paul
3.0

A Christian leader in the New Testament who taught many people and wrote letters to churches

focuses more on mission to non-Jewish communities rather than general leadership
Saul
vsApostle Paul
15 6.1

The original name of Paul, a Christian leader

uses the later name to present him as a missionary to non-Jewish communities
St. Paul
vsApostle Paul
1 5.7

A Christian missionary who spread Christianity across the Roman world and wrote letters in the New Testament

refers to the same person but without the honorific title
Saint Paul
vsApostle Paul
1 3.6

A Christian leader who taught people about Jesus and wrote letters in the New Testament

names the same person without using the religious honorific
Paul the Apostle
vsApostle Paul
6.1

A Christian leader from long ago who wrote many letters in the New Testament

places the title before the name instead of after
Apostle of the Gentiles
vsApostle Paul
  • Formal
8.5

A title for Saint Paul, a Christian leader who spreads Christianity to non-Jewish people

is the personal name rather than a descriptive title
Saul of Tarsus
vsApostle Paul
8.1

The original name of Paul the Apostle, an early Christian missionary and writer

uses the later name to stress his missionary work to non-Jews

Surface Forms

Morphology

apostle + Paul

The phrase simply labels the person Paul with the role 'apostle', so a learner who knows 'apostle' (early Christian missionary/teacher) and the proper name 'Paul' can readily infer it refers to Paul in his role as an apostle. This is a straightforward, compositional noun + name construction common cross-linguistically and does not require idiomatic or metaphorical interpretation.

Etymology

Apostle Paul comes from the story of a man first called Saul who, one popular story says, had a vision of Jesus and was then 'sent' out to teach new people about the faith. The word Apostle means 'one who is sent' and he used the name Paul while travelling and writing letters, so the title shows he was an important messenger and teacher.