Emphases and Silences
| Autor: | Morton S. Enslin |
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| Rok vydání: | 1980 |
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| Zdroj: | Harvard Theological Review. 73:219-225 |
| ISSN: | 1475-4517 0017-8160 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0017816000002108 |
| Popis: | With the letter to the Romans our firsthand source of information for Paul's activity and achievements as a devoted supporter of the one whom years before he had bitterly opposed comes to an end. In all probability, Romans, written in Corinth as he planned for his subsequent activity in the West, whither he was soon to go, after a final visit to Jerusalem which he apparently viewed with concern, even reluctance, was the last letter to come from his pen, for the letters commonly styled "Letters of the Captivity" -Philippians, Colossians, Ephesians (if actually written by Paul), and Philemon-were not.subsequently written from Rome, but in all probability were the product of his years in and about Ephesus, where in all likelihood he had suffered once again "prisons more abundantly, stripes above measure, deaths oft."' From his letters, when studied with this end in view, we find much material of a sort to be loosely styled biographical, which permits a reasonably full outline of his stormy career, entitling him to the title he has so long borne, "Apostle to the Gentiles." Many allusions in his letters, notably in Galatians, provide us with a wealth of material for reconstructing his days of devoted service. From these scattered bits of data-some in very real detail-when pondered in the light of the list of his letters, evidencing precisely the regions, at least some of them, in which he had labored, a very probable general outline of the course of his labors and travel shows forth. An open atlas indicating the relative location of these regions may well aid in making highly plausible the general order of visits and labors in these for the most part important and influential cities, which were so evidently in his eyes the most promising centers for his labor so that when the Lord returned, as he speedily would, he would find expectant and eager worshipers. |
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