Its recognition of Paul's independent gospel and apostleship as no less divine than Peter's is their guarantee of liberty and equality; its request for brotherly aid is their promise of fraternity.
Apostleship had meant ability to transmit his teaching, not endowment with insight into the mystery of the divine purpose revealed in his cross and resurrection.
But the writer is no more conscious of contradicting Paul than is Luke in describing Paul's apostleship and gospel.
It is a far cry indeed from this to apostleship and personal intimacy with Jesus.
The phenomenon must be judged in the light of the disappearance or suppression of all evangelic story save what came under the name of Peter, and the tendency in Acts to bring under his name even the entire apostleship to the Gentiles.
Both in Galatians and everywhere else Paul treats on equal terms with the representatives of the "apostleship of the circumcision.
The writer who so employs the already conventionalized symbols of ecclesiastical imagery, surely had no mean idea of the apostleship of Peter.
If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
His proof of his apostleship is summary: "Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?
His apostleship stands on so insecure a basis that he has no option in the matter, but must curry favour with all parties.
He proceeds therefore, with some pardonable warmth and righteous indignation, to assert his freedom and apostleship (vers.
Paul remains unmarried, and works with his hands to support himself, and makes himself weak among the weak, because he has no claim to maintenance and is aware that his apostleship is doubtful.
To the apostleship the sole entrance was through the call of Christ; and in virtue of this call Paul became, as he says, an Apostle.
According to this view, the election of Matthias to the apostleship was without divine sanction, being proposed by the impetuous Peter, who, before the descent of the Holy Ghost, often proposed inadvised things.
Of his other larger works, the Princess, a scarcely happy blend between burlesque in the manner of the Rape of the Lock, and a serious apostleship of the liberation of women, is solely redeemed by these lyrics.
The third is filled with the legendary traditions concerning the apostleship of St Thomas in India.
The Abbe who was a most agreeable personage, was bent more on pleasure, than on the giving of instruction but it is not by amenities of character that apostleship is successful.
The Abbe de Choisy was quite capable of understanding their hollowness but, convinced that the logic of Kings is hard to refute, became tired of his apostleship owing to the small hope he held of success.
And so the Apostles were the first Christian Bishops, instituted by Christ himselfe: in which sense the Apostleship of Judas is called (Acts 1.
It is evident, however, that David received the apostleship under the hands of Joseph and Oliver, and was not present when they received it under the ministration of the ancient apostles.
It is not the apostleship (Doctrine and Covenants section 107), but the priesthood and the calling by proper authority which enables any person to preside.
It would appear from the instructions given in the revelations, dated June, 1829, that the apostleship had been then conferred on Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer.
If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.
James and Peter and John recognized the independence of Paul's apostleship; Paul had been intrusted with the apostleship to the Gentiles as Peter with that to the circumcision.
He does not stand isolated by the grace that is given to him; nor does he look down as from the height of hisapostleship on the multitude below, saying to them,--Go.
The apostleship coincided in time with the call, was contemporaneous with that which was its cause.
Perhaps in writing to such a devoted church Paul considered it unnecessary to mention his apostleship as he had regularly done in his epistles since the denial of it in Galatia.
There was only one thing to be done; the Gentile mission must be accepted with gladness as a gift of God; he that wrought for Peter unto the apostleship of the circumcision wrought for Paul also unto the Gentiles, Gal.
That no man would venture to succeed him in his apostleship to those parts, for that was only to be exposed to a certain death; and that the blood of Simon Vaz was yet steaming.
The man's question shows that the really distinguishing character of the apostleship was not fully comprehended by him at that time.
The apostleship is an individual bestowal, and as such is conferred only through ordination.
In company with his martyred and resurrected companions, Peter and James, the "disciple whom Jesus loved" has officiated in the restoration of the Holy Apostleship in this the dispensation of the fulness of times.
We find that some of those who were later called to the apostleship were following their vocation as fishermen even while Jesus was actively engaged as a Teacher in their own neighborhood.
Even the call and ordination to the Holy Apostleship is no guarantee of eventual exaltation in the celestial kingdom.
His ordination to the apostleship placed him in possession of opportunity and privilege above that of the uncalled and unordained; and with such blessed possibility of achievement in the service of God came corresponding capability to fall.
The spirit of the Holy Apostleship was manifest in this confession.
For who can be ignorant that the primacy of his apostleship is to be preferred to any episcopate in the world?
For no one now compels the Gentiles to Judaize, and yet no one now in the Church, however great his progress in goodness, may be compared with the apostleship of Peter.
But his great and singular work was his Apostleship of prayer for England.
And he went forth on his Apostleship of prayer over Italy and France, and Hungary and Austria, and the rest of Germany; and over Belgium and England, and Ireland and Scotland, and he corresponded with the other kingdoms of Christendom.
But the time was coming when he was to pass from the ordinary life of a missioner, led in an extraordinary manner, and to pass into that religious congregation where he was to carry out his special mission, his Apostleship of prayer.
Their Apostleshipdoes not exclude or derogate from his.
Unless Paul has deceived himself, he was quite the leading figure in the Council; it was his doctrine and his Apostleship that exercised the minds of the chiefs at Jerusalem, when the delegates from Antioch appeared before them.
His Apostleship was from first to last a supernatural gift of grace.
As he looked on his Corinthian converts, drawn out of the very sink of heathen corruption, he could say, "The seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.
For you are the seal of my apostleshipin the Lord.
Yet the signs of myapostleship have been wrought on you, in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.
For he who wrought in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision wrought in me also among the Gentiles.
By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith, in all nations, for his name: 1:6.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apostleship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: call; church; pastorate; priesthood; pulpit; rabbinate; vocation
