The Second Epistle of Peter (2 Peter) is a timeless epistle that speaks to the contemporary believer as much as it did to the ...

There is no doubt that the audience the First Epistle of Peter (1 Peter) had in mind was suffering persecution. Whether it ...

The Second Epistle follows a reply from Lapraik to Burns' first Epistle to J. Lapraik, An Old Scotch Bard and is mostly autobiographical in content and details the bad luck which has been the ...

The elderly bard, John Lapraik (1727-1807) of Dalfram, Muirkirk, was married to Margaret, sister of another of Burns's poetic friends, John Rankine (to whom Burns' dedicated a verse epistle).

there comes an arousal from above, that arouses great compassion upon him from the Source of Compassion, "אִתְעָרוּתָא דִלְעֵילָּא", לְעוֹרֵר עָלָיו ...