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APPENDIX OF DISCURSIVE NOTES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2011

C. F. D. Moule
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A NOTE ON CHRISTIAN GREETINGS IN LETTERS

A comparison of the greetings in Christian letters with the secular formulae of the time is instructive. Secular letters very often start with the formula ‘A to B, greetings’, e.g. πολυκράτης τῶι πατρὶ Xαίρειν (P. Petr. II. xi (i), third centuryb.c.), or ‘… (very) many greetings’, πολλà or πλεῖστα χαίρειν; and sometimes A or B or both may be described by adjectives or designations—‘A to dearest B’—and so forth.

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The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon , pp. 151 - 170
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1957

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