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• Ptolemy
  ...stood up against the king of the south," under Antiochus, the Great and [[Philip]] III of Macedonia, who formed a league for the dismemberment of his kingdo ...inority, Antiochus the Great leagued with Philip of Macedon against Egypt. Philip took the [[Cyclades]] and some cities in Thrace, while Antiochus defeated t
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• Between The Testaments
  ...ate of Octavius, Antony and Lepidus, Antony, the eastern triumvir, favored Herod the Great, whose intrigues secured for him at last the crown of Judea and e
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• Polycarp
  ...λησίας). At last he was taken to Smyrna on the Saturday morning (viii. 1). Herod the irenarch (the chief of the municipal police) pressed him to do sacrific ...ey demanded that he should be thrown to wild beasts, and when the Asiarch, Philip of Tralles, who presided over the games which were going on, evaded the dem
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• The Synoptic Gospels
  ...Himself to the training of the Twelve, and is outside of the dominions of Herod Antipas. It is not to be forgotten that during these months Jesus is an exi
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• Roman Law In The Nt
  ...local kings deemed it practicable to spread Western ideas. The position of Herod the Great in this respect is well drawn by Ramsay (Was Christ born at Bethl
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• Gospels
  ...it," as the others are "after the flesh." John supplies details of Andrew, Philip, Nathanael, Thomas, and Judas, unmentioned by the others; also details of t ...f God’ and ‘the Son of God’ (  John 1:29;   John 1:34 ); Andrew, Philip, and [[Nathanael]] at once recognize him as Messiah (  John 1:41; &nbs
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• Rome
  ...ip in Rome (Lampridius, <i> Alexander Severus </i> , 22,49). The emperor [[Philip]] (244-49) is thought to have been a Christian at heart (Eusebius, <i> [[He
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• Persecution
  ...be arrayed against the disciples. They would be dragged before kings like Herod [[Agrippa]] (Acts 26) or Emperors like [[Nero]] (&nbsp;2 Timothy 4:6) and R ...olved in this persecution by their attachment to the family of the Emperor Philip. Considerable numbers were publicly destroyed; several purchased safety by
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• City Of Samaria
  ...3; xi, 7). </p> <p> It is commonly thought that this city was the scene of Philip's preaching and the events that followed recorded in &nbsp;Acts 8 , but the
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• Boyhood
  ...r drone. Even in after life the sacred Book is always read aloud, and so [[Philip]] (&nbsp;Acts 8:30) <i> heard </i> the eunuch reading his roll of Isaiah. T
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• Assumption Of Moses
  ...thirty-four), we must postulate a date earlier than thirty-four years from Herod’s death, <i> i.e. </i> a.d. 30. A date nearer to the deposition of [[Arch
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• Ptolemaïs
  ...remained a day in their company. The founder of the Church is not known. [[Philip]] the Evangelist, who laboured in Caesarea, has been suggested. </p> <p> Un ...en [[Cleopatra]] of Egypt holds it for a time, and here some decades later Herod the Great entertains Cæsar. During the Jewish revolt it is an important
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• Ptolemais
  ...remained a day in their company. The founder of the Church is not known. [[Philip]] the Evangelist, who laboured in Caesarea, has been suggested. </p> <p> Un ...en [[Cleopatra]] of Egypt holds it for a time, and here some decades later Herod the Great entertains Cæsar. During the Jewish revolt it is an important
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• Baptism (The Baptist Interpretation)
  ...sage deserves to be quoted in full and is here given in the translation of Philip Schaff (Presbyterian) in his edition of the <i> Didache </i> (pp. 184ff): "
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• Angels
  ...bsp;Luke 1:11; but this is largely a matter of definition. At the death of Herod (&nbsp;Acts 12:23) no <i> appearance </i> of an angel is necessarily intend ...&nbsp;1 Chronicles 21:16), on Sennacherib's army (&nbsp;2 Kings 19:35), on Herod (&nbsp;Acts 12:23). An angel troubled the pool of Bethesda (the Alex. manus
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• Bishop Of Smyrna Polycarpus
  ...on a great sabbath at the 8th hour; the arrest having been made by Herod; Philip of Tralles being chief priest, Statius [[Quadratus]] proconsul, and Jesus C
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• Festus
  ...upposedly guilty. He did not understand what made the Jews hate Paul. When Herod Agrippa, an expert on Jewish affairs, arrived at the governor’s palace, F &nbsp;Acts 24:27[[Paul]][[Herod]]
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• John The Apostle
  ...read that the two were sent by their brother-Apostles to Samaria, after [[Philip]] had exercised his evangelistic ministry there. Many had been admitted int ..., and instrumentally impart the Holy Spirit by laying hands on, the deacon Philip's converts in Samaria, the very place where John once would have called dow
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• Capernaum
  ...esence of the ‘centurion’ (&nbsp;Matthew 8:5 ff., &nbsp;Luke 7:2 ff.) that Herod [[Antipas]] had a small garrison here. St. Luke tells us that this centurio ...(where He was reared, as in [[Bethlehem]] He was born), when He heard that Herod Antipas, who often resided at Sepphoris, or Diocaesarea, near Nazareth, had
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• Ministry
  ...fore the death of Herod the Great (&nbsp;Matthew 2:1; &nbsp;Matthew 2:19). Herod died probably not later than b.c. 4, as is made out from statements of [[Jo ...was the "gift" confined to men; women prophesied - the four daughters of [[Philip]] among others (&nbsp;Acts 21:9 ). From the earliest times down to the clos
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