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legislative prescription in Lev. 23:11, 15, 16—namely, whether it was the morrow following the first day of the Passover, i.e. t ...

be said, that it better agrees with the custom of the apostles (Luke 24:53; Acts 2:46; 5:12, 42), with the time of the miracle ( ...

Pop. Com. 1883). Comp. also the corresponding sections in the works on the Apostolic Age mentioned in §20, and my H. Ap. Ch. pp. ...

congregation, bound to no particular office. The preaching of the gospel, the working of miracles in the name of Jesus, and the ...

and declared the approaching downfall of the Mosaic economy, the Pharisees made common cause with the Sadducees against the gosp ...

church of Rome. After the year 63 we have no data from the New Testament, as the Acts close with that year, and the interpretati ...

§ 26. The Peter of History and the Peter of Fiction. No character in the New Testament is brought before us in such life-like co ...

But Peter was as quick in returning to his right position as in turning away from it. He most sincerely loved the Lord from the ...

himself represents him as the first among the three "pillar"-apostles of the circumcision^300 But he stood mediating between Jam ...

with him, and refuting his errors, until at last the impostor, in the daring act of mocking Christ’s ascension to heaven, meets ...

The "Catalogus Liberianus," the oldest list of popes (supposed to have been written before 366), extends the pontificate of Pete ...

The transferability of Peter’s preëminence on a successor. This is derived by inference from the words of Christ: "Thou art Roc ...

does so. And his Epistles, far from assuming any superiority over his "fellow-elders" and over "the clergy" (by which he means t ...

W. Beyschlag: Der Jacobusbrief als urchristliches Geschichtsdenkmal. In the "Stud. u. Kritiken," 1874, No. 1, pp. 105–166. See h ...

by a personal appearance of Christ.^322 It is more fully reported in an interesting fragment of the, "Gospel according to the He ...

mentioned in Luke 3:2; John 18:13). He thus furnishes an impartial testimony to the high standing of James even among the Jews.^ ...

The Epistle in our canon, which purports to be written by "James, a bond-servant of God and of Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribe ...

when he died a martyr at the great age of a hundred and twenty years.^337 The next thirteen bishops of Jerusalem, who came, howe ...

conception. This is exegetically the most natural view and favored by the meaning of ἀδελφός(especially when used as a standing ...

and Ambrose), and has recently been ably advocated by Bishop Lightfoot (l.c.), followed by Dr. Plumptre (in the introduction to ...