apostle

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In the Book of 1 Corinthians, for example, the apostle Paul explains, "God's temple is holy, and you are that temple."

From Salon

Most of Jesus’ apostles, he pointed out, were eventually martyred.

From New York Times

Moynihan, an apostle of complexity, lived at the intersection of those two truths, a place where he was free to become one of the most creative American thinkers of the late 20th century.

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Once the apostle of balanced budgets, he now waves away the ballooning debt in the age of the virus as a problem for another day.

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Bartella is one of about a dozen historically Christian towns on the Nineveh Plains, where the apostle Saint Thomas is said to have converted the polytheistic population just decades after the death of Jesus.

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