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What does paraenesis mean?

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Noun
  1. Advice or exhortation, particularly of a moral or religious nature.
  2. (rhetoric) A warning of impending evil.
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He presents an epistolary analysis of the prescript, the thanksgiving period, the letter body the paraenesis, and the letter closing.
The Finnish scholar finds inconsistencies between doctrine and paraenesis in St. Paul.
Greco-Roman paraenesis was expressed both in discourses and in letters.

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