Excerpt from The Pauline Epistles: A Critical Study Village, amongst Jewish or Gentile converts, and the relation of these to ancient custom or new instruction or accidental requirement - without (that is. To say) a knowledge of how far the various Shapes to which the new ideas gave rise depended On the interaction of doctrine and environment - the early Christian organisation, and therewith the forms that still divide, will never be correctly ascertained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.