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• Syriac Orthodox Churches in Syria
  The [[Syriac Orthodox Church]] in Antioch traces its roots to the dawn of Christianity. The Church of Antioch is considered the second established church after Jerusalem,
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• Text:EBD:Theudas
  ...an insurrection against the Roman authority. Beyond this nothing is known of him.
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• WEB:Acts 22:5
  ...he brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.
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• KJV:2 Maccabees 1:10
  ...and health unto Aristobulus, king Ptolemeus' master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in Egypt:
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• Text:EBD:Council
  Spoken of counsellors who sat in public trials with the governor of a province (Acts 25:12). ...6:2; 2 Cor. 11:24). In Ps. 68:27 the word "council" means simply a company of persons. (R.V. marg., "company.")
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• Text:EBD:Silas
  .... 1:1; 2 Thess. 1:1; 1 Pet. 5:12). There is no record of the time or place of his death.
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• Text:EBD:Barnabas
  ...ostles (9:27). They had probably been companions as students in the school of Gamaliel. ...g been settled, they returned again to Antioch, bringing the decree of the council as the rule by which Gentiles were to be admitted into the church.
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• Text:EBD:Titus
  ...almatia]], no doubt on some important missionary errand. We have no record of his death. He is not mentioned in the Acts.
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• Text:EBD:Gamaliel
  Reward of God. (1.) A chief of the tribe of Manasseh at the census at Sinai (Num. 1:10; 2:20; 7:54, 59). ...dius, and died, it is said, about eighteen years before the destruction of Jerusalem.
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• Epistle to the Galatians
  ...er written by the [[apostle Paul]] to the [[church]] in the Roman province of Galatia in central Anatolia. ===Authorship and time of writing===
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• Text:EBD:James
  ...their boldness and energy, he and John were called Boanerges, i.e., "sons of thunder." He was the first martyr among the apostles, having been beheaded ...f the Gentiles (Acts 12:17; 15:13-29: 21:18-24). This James was the author of the epistle which bears his name.
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• Text:EBD:Pharisees
  ...9:14; 23:15; Luke 11:39; 18:12). Paul, when brought before the council of Jerusalem, professed himself a Pharisee (Acts 23:6-8; 26:4, 5). ...att. 3:7), they are ranked by our Lord with the Sadducees as a "generation of vipers." They were noted for their self-righteousness and their pride (Matt
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• Notes on the history of the Nasrani Church of the East
  '''History of the Nasrani Church of the East''' ...srani Orthodox Church" and the more popular "Saint Thomas Christian Church of the East and Abroad".
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• Acts of the Apostles
  topic_name = The Book of Acts | subtopics = Events: [[Pentecost]], [[Jerusalem Council]]
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• Text:EBD:Blood
  ...s still binding on all. Blood was eaten by the Israelites after the battle of Gilboa (1 Sam. 14:32-34). ...ere consecrated to God, or entered into covenant with him, hence the blood of the covenant (Matt. 26:28; Heb. 9:19, 20; 10:29; 13:20).
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• Conversion of Cornelius (G.G.)
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• Text:EBD:Judas
  The Graecized form of Judah. (1.) The patriarch (Matt. 1:2, 3). ...at in Matt. 27:5. The sucide first hanged himself, perhaps over the valley of Hinnom, "and the rope giving way, or the branch to which he hung breaking,
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• Text:EBD:Galatians, Epistle to
  The genuineness of this epistle is not called in question. Its Pauline origin is universally a ...g the Galatians to the simplicity of the gospel, and at the same time also of vindicating Paul's claim to be a divinely-commissioned apostle.
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• Anglican Communion
  ...nglican Doctrine]], [[Thirty-Nine Articles]], [[Book of Common Prayer]], [[Jerusalem Declaration]] ...ury]], [[Lambeth Conferences|Lambeth Conference]], [[Anglican Consultative Council]], [[Anglican Communion Primates' Meeting|Primates' Meeting]]
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• Text:EBD:Peter
  ...bly enjoy, however, any special training in the study of the law under any of the rabbis. When Peter appeared before the Sanhedrin, he looked like an "un ...trayed his own nationality and that of those conjoined with him on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:7)." It would seem that Simon was married before he becam
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