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The Senate gave them letters to the authorities of each place, to procure their safe conduct to Judaea. (1 Maccabees 12, 4)
Numenius and his companions, meanwhile, arrived from Rome, bringing letters addressed to various kings and states, in the following terms: (1 Maccabees 15, 15)
'In addition to the above, it was also recorded, both in these writings and in the Memoirs of Nehemiah, how Nehemiah founded a library and made a collection of the books dealing with the kings and the prophets, the writings of David and the letters of the kings on the subject of offerings. (2 Maccabees 2, 13)
At that time, the king of Babylon, Merodach-Baladan son of Baladan, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard of his illness and his recovery. (Isaiah 39, 1)
and asked for letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, that would authorise him to arrest and take to Jerusalem any followers of the Way, men or women, that he might find. (Acts 9, 2)
as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify. I even received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, which I took with me when I set off to bring prisoners back from there to Jerusalem for punishment. (Acts 22, 5)
They answered, 'We have received no letters from Judaea about you, nor has any of the brothers arrived here with any report or story of anything to your discredit. (Acts 28, 21)
When I come, I will send to Jerusalem with letters of introduction those people you approve to deliver your gift; (1 Corinthians 16, 3)
Are we beginning to commend ourselves to you afresh -- as though we needed, like some others, to have letters of commendation either to you or from you? (2 Corinthians 3, 1)
He has given us the competence to be ministers of a new covenant, a covenant which is not of written letters, but of the Spirit; for the written letters kill, but the Spirit gives life. (2 Corinthians 3, 6)
Now if the administering of death, engraved in letters on stone, occurred in such glory that the Israelites could not look Moses steadily in the face, because of its glory, transitory though this glory was, (2 Corinthians 3, 7)
Someone said, 'His letters are weighty enough, and full of strength, but when you see him in person, he makes no impression and his powers of speaking are negligible.' (2 Corinthians 10, 10)