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Pastoral Epistle

American  

noun

  1. any one of three New Testament books, I or II Timothy or Titus, that stress pastoral and ecclesiastical concerns.

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He had read the Pastoral Epistle that supposedly made a forceful argument against female ministers, and felt that the text was less authoritative than it had been portrayed to be.

From The New Yorker

A Pastoral Epistle, written by command of archbishop Wulfstan.

From Project Gutenberg

A pastoral epistle to the Earl of Ormond, and all nobles of the realm of Ireland; 'To all who groan beneath the loathsome tyranny of an illegitimate adulteress, etc.,

From Project Gutenberg

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