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Churches under Siege of Persecution and Assimilation: The General Epistles and Revelation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this third and final book of a three-volume series, B.J. Oropeza covers the writings of the General Epistles and the communities in the book of Revelation—the seven churches in Asia Minor. In Hebrews there were warnings of apostasy with no restoration, yet in James there can be restoration of apostates. Peter identifies marginalized Christians and apostate teachers. Jude confronts apostate...

The author’s message on the high priesthood of Christ is interrupted to address the audience’s spiritual dullness in an inclusio from 5:11 to 6:12.128 In these verses he uses the term νωθρός negatively associating it with the audience’s lack of maturity when it comes to moral and spiritual instruction (5:11–14). Preisker understands νωθρός here as “a lack of receptivity for Christian gnosis, and a stale, exhausted spirit instead of the
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