LET’S KNOW THE BIBLE In the collection of St. Paul’s letters, after the writings were sent to the community, there are letters sent to specific persons; besides the letter to Philemon, which we have already considered, together with Colossians, there are three letters at the end of the collection sent to Paul’s disciples, two to […]
LET’S KNOW THE BIBLE The letters to the Thessalonians are gathered near the end of the Pauline collection, but they are the first letters written by the apostle Paul. The first letter to the Thessalonians is not only Paul’s first work, but also the earliest New Testament writing we possess. It is, therefore, a […]
LET’S KNOW THE BIBLE The letter to the Colossians is also one of Paul’s writings from prison. During the first Roman imprisonment, between 61 and 63, he writes an encyclical letter to the area of Ephesus; this is a particular letter to the community of Colossae; and also a personal note to […]
LET’S KNOW THE BIBLE At the same time that the apostle Paul was writing to the Philippians, he also wrote the splendid letter to the Galatians. Paul was in Ephesus, between the years 56 and 57, in a rather turbulent period of his life, and he received news about improper behavior of Christians living […]
LET’S KNOW THE BIBLE In Paul’s series of letters, called Captivity Letters, there is also the letter to the Philippians. However, modern scholars believe that this letter is not linked to Paul’s captivity in Rome, between 61 and 63 but is an older letter. Paul would have written to the Christian community in Philippi during […]
LET’S KNOW THE BIBLE After the crisis with the Corinthian congregation, the apostle Paul arrived in the isthmus city and spent the winter in the city of Corinth between ’57 and ’58. During this period, he wrote the Letter to the Romans, but in the spring of ’58, the apostle Paul resumed […]
LET’S KNOW THE BIBLE The apologetic letter that Paul sent to the Corinthian community was not accepted. The apostle’s defense was rejected by the community or, rather, by someone within the community who was stirring up the group whom Paul calls ‘super-apostles,’ people who have gone up in smoke and think they are who-knows-who and […]
In the first letter that Paul sent to the Corinthian Christians, many of the positions held by some people in Corinth, Paul questioned certain behaviors and theological doctrines, proposed corrections indicated the necessary changes to be made in the life of the community and also criticized well-known people in the community. We must imagine, therefore, […]
LET’S KNOW THE BIBLE The Christian community of Corinth sent a delegation of three men to the apostle Paul, who was in Ephesus named Stephen, Fortunatus and Achaicus, who brought the apostle a letter asking him to clarify some questions. And so, in the second part of the first letter to the Corinthians, from chapter […]
LET’S KNOW THE BIBLE After having considered the Letter to the Romans, masterpiece of the Pauline gospel, today we consider the First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians. It is before the Letter to the Romans, about a year earlier; it is a wonderful and varied letter, decidedly colloquial and familiar; it is not […]