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Letters for the Church: Reading James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude as Canon is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Catholic Epistles often get short shrift. Tucked into a few pages near the back of our Bibles, these books are sometimes referred to as the “non-Pauline epistles” or “concluding letters,” maybe getting lumped together with Hebrews and Revelation. Yet these letters, Darian Lockett argues, are treasures hidden in plain sight, and it’s time to give them the attention they deserve. In Letters...

enemy” (HCSB). Frustrated desires are due to wrong asking, and wrong asking is an indication of a rebellious disposition toward God. The label “adulteresses” (moichalides, a feminine plural noun) connects back to the Old Testament, where Israel (the bride) is in covenant relationship with God (the groom). This covenant relationship is found in the Torah and the Prophets, where it is couched in terms of marriage (Is 54:4–8). There God is rejected by unfaithful Israel, and thus the unfaithfulness of
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