History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100.

about doctrinal and ritual inferences from these facts, especially the question of the continued obligation of circumcision and ...

Master, yet quickly returning to him in bitter repentance and sincere humility. It is for this inconsistency of conduct, which P ...

§ 23. Chronology of the Apostolic Age. See the works quoted in § 20 p. 193, 194, especially Wieseler. Comp. also, Hackett on Act ...

The Neronian persecution, a.d. 64 (the tenth year of Nero, according to Tacitus). The martyrdom of Paul and Peter occurred eith ...

Marcellus Procurator. Pilate sent to Rome by the Prefect of Syria. 36 37 Martyrdom of Stephen. Acts, ch 7. Peter and John in Sam ...

The Tetrarchy of Trachonitis given to Herod Agrippa II (the last of the Herodian family). Decree of Claudius banishing Jews from ...

Epistle to the Hebrews, written from Italy after the release of Timothy (ch. 13:23). Gessius Florus Procurator Great fire at Rom ...

95 John writes the Revelation (?). Persecution of Christians 95 Nerva Emperor 96 Death of Apollonius 97 98–100 Death of John. Tr ...

Comp. also Neander (I. 1), Lange (II. 13), Ewald (VI. 106), Thiersch (p. 65, 3d ed.), Schaff (191 and 469), Farrar (St. Paul, ch ...

This festival was admirably adapted for the opening event in the history of the apostolic church. It pointed typically to the fi ...

as the form which the Holy Spirit assumed at the baptism of Christ is compared to a dove.^263 The tongues of flame were gleaming ...

teaching and exhortation. From the Mount of Transfiguration the disciples, like their Master, descended to the valley below to h ...

or the Pentecostal and the Corinthian glossolalia; the only difference remaining is that in Corinth the interpretation of tongue ...

the forgiveness of sins and the gift of the Holy Ghost, whose wonderful workings they saw and heard in the disciples. This was t ...

(c) Most commentators: language or dialect (διάλεκτος, comp. Acts 1:19; 2:6, 8; 21:40; 26:14). This is the correct view. "Tongue ...

he heard in the church having the gift of prophecy and of speaking in "diverse tongues" (Παντοδαπαῖς γλώσσαις), bringing the hid ...

(a) The rationalistic interpretation cuts the Gordian knot by denying the miracle, as a mistake of the narrator or of the early ...

in aller Ohren und ergreifend in aller Herzen. Es war ein Vorspiel der Einigung, in welcher die von Babel datirende Veruneinigun ...

that they had learnt it like other people, by early training and practice. Moreover there is no trace of such a miraculous knowl ...

or electric sparks from a sultry atmosphere, and the glossolalia into a praying of each in his own vernacular, instead of the sa ...