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00:00Okay, so we left our
00:29reflection, asking ourselves if we really
00:33what we have in our hands, what
00:36We have it in our Bible, it's really
00:39a letter or an epistle. We must say
00:43which does not appear in the original Greek
00:46the word letter at the beginning of his writings.
00:49However, for example, in the first of
00:51In Corinthians 5:9, the apostle makes mention of
00:55another writing which he calls an epistle.
00:57Now, I'd like us to see it.
00:59directly here on the program. Let's go.
01:02call to 1 Corinthians, chapter
01:065, in verse 9, and we see here
01:11He clearly tells us in my letter to you
01:14I wrote that they should not walk in the company of
01:16immoral people. If we see it in the
01:19international version, by letter, they already
01:23had said not to associate with
01:25immoral people. Let's see in the
01:28What does the Greek text say? It says here.
01:33The text is in Greek and here is the
01:38letter, we basically identify it by
01:41It's in English, here's the text
01:44which he is referring to and we see that the
01:49The text that speaks to us is epistole, the
01:52The Greek term is epistole, which is the
01:56which tells us about a letter. We see that it is
02:00exactly the same translation as
02:03We have it here. We see then that the issue
02:07of a letter or epistle, since it has a
02:12direct relationship with his writing in
02:16Greek, that's why this term translated into
02:20the vulgate of epistole will be translated
02:24as a letter. However, we must note
02:27that profane literary criticism
02:29It distinguishes between epistle and letter. For its
02:33part, letter means a document
02:37private, highly functional and devoid of
02:42rhetorical artifice and is directed
02:45exclusively with a certain sense of
02:48inviolable secret to the recipient that
02:51It is expressly named. And well, the
02:54epistle, on the other hand, within criticism
02:57profane, because it means that it is a
03:00literary composition, which can be
03:02even in verse, which is intended for
03:05in the general public, a
03:08recipient, but without it being addressed
03:11exclusively to him. And so these
03:14features such as that which leads us to
03:16In other words, it would seem rather then
03:20that the letters in general, then, would enter
03:25in the term epistle, but it seems
03:27rather here with the Pauline letters, in
03:31These New Testament epistles,
03:34We would have to invent a middle ground,
03:36Something like an epicart, right? It sounds weird.
03:40Well, but as an epic, because it
03:43It is located halfway between both
03:45definitions, but certainly, as it
03:48As we mentioned earlier, it predominates.
03:52of a letter, because the recipients and it
03:56that Paul wanted to tell them, here and
03:59Now, it occupies a primary place in the
04:02mind of the author, so that if there had been
04:04They said that nobody was going to read them, well, the
04:07would have written it the same way, that is, he would have.
04:10That's how I was going to write it, wasn't it?
04:13Let's point out some of the features
04:15characteristic of the letters of Saint
04:17Pablo.
04:18First, the language used by the author
04:22falls within the classification
04:24specifically religious.
04:27Although it is not considered his work within
04:29of the Christian literature of the time
04:32apostolic, its influence comes from the
04:35Bible of the 70s.
04:37Second, the models it uses for its
04:41The writing models are Greek, but
04:45It also uses, it's easy to detect the
04:48which it also uses in many parts
04:50Jews, that is, it also uses models
04:53Jews.
04:54Throughout the Old Testament
04:57They find very few letters, among
05:00other things, because a letter required,
05:03As we were saying, then, from an email from a
05:05a specialist who sent it,
05:08No?
05:08So, we don't find it in the Old
05:10Will.
05:11Otherwise, they are just letters from kings or
05:15of high dignitaries, they are the only ones
05:17that they could pay a person to
05:20that he traveled I don't know how many hundreds of
05:22kilometers and submissively led another
05:25person specifically from another place,
05:27No?
05:28They were high dignitaries who...
05:32They did it, without any special content
05:34ideological, as might be the case with David
05:37Joab, who is in second Samuel
05:4011, and some others.
05:43Only two can be considered within
05:45These precedents to those of Paul.
05:48One, Hezekiah's, to the tribes of
05:51North, which would be in the same line as
05:53Pablo, after giving a whole catechesis,
05:55Instructions, right?
05:57Inviting them to celebrate Easter in
05:59Jerusalem is in second place.
06:02Chronicles, and that of Jeremiah to the
06:04deported to Babylon.
06:05They also have the same
06:06characteristics and the same vision as
06:10Paul in his letters, because in them
06:13invites them to integrate into society
06:16Where he lived, it's there in Jeremiah
06:1929, right?
06:21Regarding the Greek model, we can
06:23to say that in this time there is no shortage of
06:26letters or epistles between them
06:28writers.
06:29There are the famous letters of
06:32Diogenes to the Greeks of Crete and to
06:36the Thessalians.
06:38It's in some other documents, isn't it?
06:41So, yes, there is one inside the
06:43Greek literature, if we find this
06:46format type.
06:49On the other hand, we have that in the genre
06:52internal that we find in the letters,
06:55That is, the essence and purpose of
06:57the letters, the letters of Saint Paul
06:59can be considered as a work
07:02of a teacher and a pastor, and not
07:05properly of an evangelist.
07:08This becomes clear if we review about
07:10the entire text of Ephesians 4:11, in the
07:13which the ministries of the
07:16church, that is, he is ordering, he is
07:18Giving, he is truly a master, no
07:21He is evangelizing.
07:23If you recall, in one of our
07:24We've talked about this in previous episodes, haven't we?
07:28How Paul, then, properly did not
07:31resumes his relationship with Christ, does not
07:34direct mentions, more than in some
07:36parts, but it's clear he knows
07:38perfectly to the Lord. However, his
07:41exhibition is not exactly
07:44querygmatic, isn't it?
07:46If we pay attention, we will notice that
07:49Paul, in his letters, does not act
07:51really like an evangelist apostle,
07:54but as a teacher and a shepherd, already
07:57which we don't find in the letters, like
07:59I mentioned earlier, well, no one
08:01element or elements specific to a
08:04querigma, which is the announcement directed at
08:07The believers. The apostle writes already
08:10the communities already formed, and that's why
08:13What it actually does is, in
08:15The Greek would be called the didagé, that is,
08:19a doctrine directed, but already to the already
08:23Believers, right? The letters, then, imply
08:26a community that is already formed, that is already
08:29instructed in the truths of the faith.
08:31The determining factor in these letters
08:35It must have been, as is typical of this
08:37gender, to convey something of their presence
08:41personal, that is, to continue being in
08:45a moment of danger, of doubt, like a
08:47mother, like a father, welcome them, attract them,
08:52And in this sense, I would like to conclude
08:54This small section, reading a text
08:57from 1 Thessalonians, which
09:00It truly lets us see
09:03This truly beautiful vision of
09:07apostle. What does this text from Saint tell us?
09:11Pablo? He says, rather we demonstrate that we are
09:15kind to one another, like a mother
09:18who tenderly raises his own children.
09:22Having great affection for you,
09:25we have been pleased to impart to you no
09:29not only the Gospel of God, but also
09:31our own lives, for they came to
09:34to be greatly loved. For they must remember,
09:38brothers, our labors and toils, as
09:41working day and night, so as not to be
09:44We proclaim that we will not place any burden on any of you.
09:47the Gospel of God. You are witnesses, and
09:51So is God, how holy, just and
09:54We behaved irreproachably with
09:57You believers. Just as you know of
10:01how we urged them,
10:03We encouraged and implored each one
10:07of you, as a father would with
10:09their own children, so that they might walk
10:12as is worthy of the God who has called them to
10:16His kingdom and His glory. We see here, then.
10:20Paul making himself present in the
10:23community through the letter. Thus the
10:27I have loved, so I tell you today, listen to me
10:30as if I were hearing it from my own mouth. And
10:35Well, we'll end this second part here.
10:38segment, we return to finish our
10:41Class. Until a moment.
10:46Bye.