Words of Fire: The Early Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians and the Galatians 14163 Luke has been described as

Luke has been described as "the loveliest book in the world

began to withdraw from "the world" to retreat into the desert

It is a text hardly known in Eastern Orthodox or Western churches

bishop of Nyssa

Words of Fire: The Early Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians and the Galatians 14163 Luke has been described as"Sugg. Donation" The early epistles of St. Paul come down to us from antiquity like a flame kindled from within his great apostolic heart a flame of indignation that the people he loved were being led astray from the path of Christ. These are not words of disinterested philosophy nor of cold catechetical teaching. They are words of fire, and they come from one who was himself on fire with the love of God and His people. These early epistles have