The opening verses of the epistle draw from the Gospel of John, using much of the same language and alluding to the same argument that the word was the beginning and the word was Christ.

Let’s begin with verses from the Apostle John ... “belonging to the truth” are John’s recurring themes in his Epistles. He writes from first-hand experience, having known that Jesus ...

In May 1787 Burns composed this epistle for the historian Mr William Tytler (1711 - 1793). The verses were inspired by Tytler's publication, An Historical and Critical Enquiry into the Evidence ...

In a year marked by economic stress and election anxiety, many turned to the Bible for comfort—particularly to the Pauline Epistles and ... nearly all of the top 25 verses.

Here are three verses from the reading ... Scholars began to question the authorship of the Pastoral Epistles in the 19th century and the questions arose not due to questions which emerged ...

Rankine’s sister Margaret was the first wife of John Lapraik about whom Burns also composed an Epistle. Rankine was one of the first to find out that Burns had impregnated Elizabeth Paton ...

BURNS himself was only 27 when he wrote these verses of advice to a presumably yet younger friend. But he dons a cloak of wisdom and maturity, as well as humour, in the opening stanzas.