Sample Sentences for
apostle
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(editor-reviewed)

apostle as in:  an apostle for the cause

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She is an apostle of revolution.
apostle = enthusiastic early supporter
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    Rosamond a sufferer, a labourer, a female apostle?  (source)
    apostle = Christian missionary
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    Be, if thy spirit summon thee to such a mission, the teacher and apostle of the red men.  (source)
    apostle = important Christian missionary
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    There is Simon Peter the Apostle, of course, who was made a fisher of men by our Lord.†  (source)
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    I mean real love, the kind my grandmother used to describe by quoting the apostle Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, the love that is kind and patient, that does not envy or boast, that beareth all things and believeth all things and endureth all things.†  (source)
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    To quote the apostle Paul: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God" (Romans 8:28).†  (source)
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    Once on a paper torn from his notebook he wrote a poem And he called it "Innocence: A Question" because that was the question about his girl And that's what it was all about And his professor gave him an A and a strange steady look And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because he never showed her That was the year that Father Tracy died And he forgot how the end of the Apostle's Creed went And he caught his sister making out on the back porch And his mother and father never kissed or even talked And the girl around the corner wore too much makeup That made him cough when he kissed her but he kissed her anyway because that was the thing to do And at three A.M. h†  (source)
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    [But] even this threat to peace can be overcome through the assurance that comes from faith—and through love, which the apostle John says casts out fear†  (source)
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    The apostle Paul was writing about the Roman Empire, but he might as well have been talking about present-day America.†  (source)
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    Twenty percent of Kerala's population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection.†  (source)
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    Many hundreds of years later, St. Paul the Apostle stood here and preached about Jesus and Christianity to the Athenians.†  (source)
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    Then, of course, there was John the apostle, who described heaven in great detail in the book of Revelation.†  (source)
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    This is Big Sam our foreman, and Elijah and Apostle and Prophet from Tara.†  (source)
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    Ah'm de Apostle Paul tuh de Gentiles.†  (source)
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Apostle as in:  chosen by Jesus

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Paul claimed the role of Apostle to the Gentiles.
Apostle = Christianity:  one of the original 12 disciples (followers) chosen by Jesus Christ to preach his gospel
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    There were Cains and Abels, Pharaoh's daughters; Queens of Sheba, Angelic messengers descending through the air on clouds like feather-beds, Abrahams, Belshazzars, Apostles putting off to sea in butter-boats, hundreds of figures to attract his thoughts; and yet that face of Marley, seven years dead, came like the ancient Prophet's rod, and swallowed up the whole.  (source)
    Apostles = followers chosen by Jesus Christ to preach his gospel
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    His, under such circumstances, is the destiny of the pioneer; and the first pioneers of the Gospel were the Apostles — their captain was Jesus, the Redeemer, Himself.  (source)
    Apostles = Christianity:  the original 12 disciples (followers) chosen by Jesus Christ to preach his gospel
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    They're the apostles.  (source)
    apostles = the original 12 followers chosen by Jesus Christ to preach his gospel
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    The Acts of the Apostles, chapter sixteen, is it?†  (source)
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    It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not disdain the canonship.†  (source)
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    We hear of this in the Acts of the Apostles.†  (source)
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    Even the legendary craft of the company, a craft subtler and more secret than its fabled books of secret subtle wisdom, had not fired his soul with the energy of apostleship.†  (source)
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    Pictures of Christ, the Apostles, Mary, the Crucifixion.†  (source)
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    Strange that his first aspiration—towards academical proficiency—had been checked by a woman, and that his second aspiration—towards apostleship—had also been checked by a woman.†  (source)
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    Apostles and Apostates†  (source)
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    the wind, that is there said to fill the house wherein the Apostles were assembled on the day of Pentecost, is not to be understood for the Holy Spirit, which is the Deity it self; but for an Externall sign of Gods speciall working on their hearts, to effect in them the internall graces, and holy vertues hee thought requisite for the performance of their Apostleship.†  (source)
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    We have to know by heart all the prayers, the Hail Mary, the Our Father, the Confiteor, the Apostles' Creed, the Act of Contrition, the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary.†  (source)
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    This Testimony, was the specificall, and essentiall mark; whereby the Apostleship was distinguished from other Magistracy Ecclesiasticall; as being necessary for an Apostle, either to have seen our Saviour after his Resurrection, or to have conversed with him before, and seen his works, and other arguments of his Divinity, whereby they might be taken for sufficient Witnesses.†  (source)
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