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✝️The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to Seneca, with Seneca's to Paul [Chapter 6 & Chapter 7]✝️ Chapter VI. Chapter VI. Paul to Seneca and Lucilius Greeting. CONCERNING those things about which ye wrote to me it is not proper for me to mention anything in writing with pen and ink: the one of which leaves marks, and the other evidently declares things. 2 Especially since I know that there are near you, as well as me, those who will understand my meaning. 3 Deference is to be paid to all men, and so much the more, as they are more likely to take occasions of quarrelling. 4 And if we show a submissive temper, we shall overcome effectually in all points, if so be they are, who are capable of seeing and acknowledging themselves to have been in the wrong. Farewell. Chapter VII. Chapter VII. Annæus Seneca to Paul Greeting. I PROFESS myself extremely pleased with the reading your letters to the Galatians, Corinthians, and people of Achaia. 2 For the Holy Ghost has in them by you delivere...

✝️The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to Seneca, with Seneca's to Paul [Chapter 4 & Chapter 5]✝️ Chapter IV. Chapter IV. Paul to Seneca Greeting. AS often as I read your letters, I imagine you present with me; nor indeed do I think any other, than that you are always with us. 2 As soon therefore as you begin to come, we shall presently see each other. I wish you all prosperity. Chapter V. Chapter V. Annæus Seneca to Paul Greeting. WE are very much concerned at your too long absence from us. 2 What is it, or what affairs are they, which obstruct your coming? 3 If you fear the anger of Cæsar, because you have abandoned your former religion, and made proselytes also of others, you have this to plead, that your acting thus proceeded not from inconstancy, but judgment. Farewell.

✝️The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to Seneca, with Seneca's to Paul [Chapter 3]✝️ Chapter III. Chapter III. Annæus Seneca to Paul Greeting. 1 I HAVE completed some volumes, and divided them into their proper parts. 2 I am determined to read them to Cæsar, and if any favourable opportunity happens, you also shall be present, when they are read; 3 But if that cannot be, I will appoint and give you notice of a day, when we will together read over the performance. 4 I had determined, if I could with safety, first to have your opinion of it, before I published it to Cæsar, that you might be convinced of my affection to you. Farewell, dearest Paul.

✝️The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to Seneca, with Seneca's to Paul [Chapter 2]✝️ Chapter II. Chapter II. Paul to Seneca Greeting. 1 I RECEIVED your letter yesterday with pleasure: to which I could immediately have wrote an answer, had the young man been at home, whom I intended to have sent to you: 2 For you know when, and by whom, at what seasons, and to whom I must deliver every thing which I send. 3 I desire therefore you would not charge me with negligence, if I wait for a proper person. 4 I reckon myself very happy in having the judgment of so valuable a person, that you are delighted with my Epistles: 5 For you would not be esteemed a censor, a philosopher, or be the tutor of so great a prince, and a master of every thing, if you were not sincere. I wish you a lasting prosperity.

✝️The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to Seneca, with Seneca's to Paul [Chapter 1]✝️ Chapter I. Chapter I. Annæus Seneca to Paul Greeting. 1 I SUPPOSE, Paul, you have been informed of that conversation, which passed yesterday between me and my Lucilius, concerning hypocrisy and other subjects; for there were some of your disciples in company with us; 2 For when we were retired into the Sallustian gardens, through which they were also passing, and would have gone another way, by our persuasion they joined company with us. 3 I desire you to believe, that we much wish for your conversation: 4 We were much delighted with your book of many Epistles, which you have wrote to some cities and chief towns of provinces, and contain wonderful instructions for moral conduct: 5 Such sentiments, as I suppose you were not the author of, but only the instrument of conveying, though sometimes both the author and the instrument. 6 For such is the sublimity of those doctrines, and their grandeur, that I ...

Intro.: The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to Seneca, with Seneca's to Paul The EPISTLES of PAUL the APOSTLE to SENECA, with SENECA'S to PAUL. [Several very learned writers have entertained a favourable opinion of these Epistles. They are undoubtedly of high antiquity. Salmeron cites them to prove that Seneca was one of Car's household, referred to by Paul, Philip. iv. 22, as saluting the brethren at Philippi. In Jerome's enumeration of illustrious men, he places Seneca, on account of these Epistles, amongst the ecclesiastical and holy writers of the Christian Church. Sixtus Senensis has published them in his Bibliotheque, pp. 89, 90; and it is from thence that the present translation is made. Baronius, Bellarmine, Dr. Cave, Spanheim, and others, contend that they are not genuine.]

Letters of Herod and Pilate [These letters occur in a Syriac MS., of the sixth or seventh century, in the British Museum. Dr. Tischendorf states in his Apocalypses Apocryphæ (Prolegg. p. 56) that he has a copy of the same in Greek from a Paris MS., of which he says "scripture satis differt, non item argumentum." The letters are followed by a few extracts which seem to have been added by some copyist, although they are followed by the subscription to Pilate's letter. We suppose that by Justinus, we are to understand Justus of Tiberias of whom Josephus speaks as a historian of his tine. We cannot venture an opinion favorable to the genuineness of this extract, because Photius says Justus did not mention Christ. By Theodorus, we understand the Emperor Tiberius. The question and answer agree in sense with what is read in the "Anaphora," or response of Pilate.] LETTER OF HEROD TO PILATE THE GOVERNOR. Herod to Pontius Pilate the Governor of Jerusalem: Peace. I AM in g...