Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- I THE WORD ECCLESIA
- II THE APOSTLES IN RELATION TO THE ECCLESIA
- III EARLY STAGES IN THE GROWTH OF THE ECCLESIA
- IV THE ECCLESIA OF ANTIOCH
- V THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY
- VI ST PAUL AT EPHESUS
- VII THE ‘ECCLESIA’ IN THE EPISTLES
- VIII THE EARLIER EPISTLES OF ST PAUL
- IX THE ONE UNIVERSAL ECCLESIA IN THE EPISTLES OF THE FIRST ROMAN CAPTIVITY
- X ‘GIFTS’ AND ‘GRACE’
- XI TITUS AND TIMOTHY IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XII OFFICERS OF THE ECCLESIA IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XIII BRIEF NOTES ON VARIOUS EPISTLES, AND RECAPITULATION
- FOUR SERMONS
- APPENDIX: Decoration of Emmanuel College Chapel
- INDEX
- WORKS BY THE LATE Rev. F. J. A. Hort, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D.
IX - THE ONE UNIVERSAL ECCLESIA IN THE EPISTLES OF THE FIRST ROMAN CAPTIVITY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- I THE WORD ECCLESIA
- II THE APOSTLES IN RELATION TO THE ECCLESIA
- III EARLY STAGES IN THE GROWTH OF THE ECCLESIA
- IV THE ECCLESIA OF ANTIOCH
- V THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY
- VI ST PAUL AT EPHESUS
- VII THE ‘ECCLESIA’ IN THE EPISTLES
- VIII THE EARLIER EPISTLES OF ST PAUL
- IX THE ONE UNIVERSAL ECCLESIA IN THE EPISTLES OF THE FIRST ROMAN CAPTIVITY
- X ‘GIFTS’ AND ‘GRACE’
- XI TITUS AND TIMOTHY IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XII OFFICERS OF THE ECCLESIA IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES
- XIII BRIEF NOTES ON VARIOUS EPISTLES, AND RECAPITULATION
- FOUR SERMONS
- APPENDIX: Decoration of Emmanuel College Chapel
- INDEX
- WORKS BY THE LATE Rev. F. J. A. Hort, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D.
Summary
We now enter on that period of the Apostolic Age which begins with St Paul's arrival at Rome. His long-cherished hope was at last fulfilled, though not in the way which he had proposed to himself. He had met face to face the Christian community which had grown up independently of all authoritative guidance in the distant capital; and, on the way, the Gentile offering which he carried to the Christians of Jerusalem had been accepted by their leaders, and he had escaped, though barely escaped, martyrdom at the hands of his unbelieving countrymen. Delivered from this danger, and shut up for two years at Caesarea, probably with great advantage to the cause for which he laboured, he had reached Rome at last as the prisoner of the Roman authorities. Here he spent another period of two years in another enforced seclusion, which still more evidently gave him a place of vantage for spreading the Gospel such as he could hardly have had as a mere visitor (see Lightfoot, Phil. 18 f.). The four extant Epistles belonging to this period are pervaded by a serenity and a sense of assurance such as are rarely to be found in their six predecessors, even in Romans, and this increased happiness of tone is closely connected with St Paul's thoughts and hopes about the various Ecclesiae and about the Ecclesia.
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- The Christian EcclesiaA Course of Lectures on the Early History and Early Conceptions of the Ecclesia, and Four Sermons, pp. 135 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010