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APOSTLE PAUL WROTE 14 BIBLICAL LETTERS (EPISTLES) IN A SPAN OF 18 YEARS. WHO MADE SURE THIS MAIL GOT TO THEIR DESTINATIONS? IT IS POSSIBLE EITHER TIMOTHY OR SILAS DELIVERED PAUL'S TWO LETTERS TO THESSALONICA (1THESSALONIANS 1:1, 2THESSALONIANS 1:1). SEVERAL PEOPLE (TIMOTHY, TITUS, ETC.) WERE AVAILABLE TO TAKE GALATIANS TO ITS CHURCHES (ACTS 19:22, 20:4, GALATIANS 2:1). TITUS TOOK BOTH 1 AND 2CORINTHIANS TO CORINTH (2CORINTHIANS 12:18). PHOEBE, A DEACONESS IN THE CHURCH, TOOK PAUL'S LETTER TO ROME (ROMANS 16:27). TIMOTHY TOOK THE BOOK OF HEBREWS TO JERUSALEM (HEBREWS 13:25). A MAN NAMED TYCHICUS TOOK PAUL'S LETTER TO EPHESUS (EPHESIANS 6:21, 24). A ZEALOUS MAN NAMED EPAPHRODITUS DELIVERED THIS LETTER FOR PAUL (PHILIPPIANS 2:25 - 26, 4:23). TYCHICUS AND ONESIMUS CARRIED COLOSSIANS TO COLOSSE (COLOSSIANS 4:18). A SLAVE NAMED ONESIMUS DELIVERED PHILEMON TO HIS MASTER (PHILEMON 1:25). LUKE (POSSIBLY) DELIVERED 1 AND 2TIMOTHY TO TIMOTHY. ARTEMAS OR TYCHICUS TOOK PAUL'S BOOK OF TITUS TO CRETE (TITUS 3:12). LOCATIONS ... PAUL'S WRITINGS WERE SENT TO MACEDONIA, ACHAIA, ASIA AND ITALY. HE ALSO SENT HIS LETTERS TO THE CHURCHES IN THE PROVINCE OF GALATIA (PISIDIAN ANTIOCH, ICONIUM, LYSTRA AND DERBE), THE ISLAND OF CRETE AND JERUSALEM IN JUDEA. |
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