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• Herod
  ...rs and bore the ceremonial title of king, but he had no authority over the Jews of Judea ( Acts 25:13;  Acts 26:3;  Acts 26:27;  Acts 2 ...a time they let the [[Christians]] alone ( Acts 9:31). To "please the Jews" he slew James the brother of John, and imprisoned Peter with the intention
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• Magi
  ...ed their inference that a king of the Jews was born may well have been the Jews of the Diaspora, whose tenets would doubtless be known to the wise men of t ...ked, and the light of truth rekindled among them. In this view the ancient Jews evidently considered the Jewish church as appointed not to preserve only bu
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• Peter
  ...hurch as ‘the planting of Peter and Paul’ (Eusebius, HE_ II. xxv. 8). Some modern scholars regard this conclusion as historically correct (e.g. K. Lake, The ...us of Corinth asserts it, A.D. 180. Babylon, a chief seat of the dispersed Jews, was his head quarters when he wrote  1 Peter 5:13, not Rome as some h
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• Samaritan
  ...belonged to the sect which derived their appellation from that city. The [[Jews]] had no dealings with the Samaritans. 2. The language of Samaria, a dialec ...rammatum, p. 44. (See [[Literature And Liturgysamaritan Language);]] (See Modern Samaritans). </p>
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• Samaritans Samaria
  ...Grimm, <i> Die Samaritaner </i> , München, 1854; Mills, <i> Nablus and the Modern Samaritans </i> , 1864; Kohn, <i> Samaritanische Studien </i> , Breslau, 18 ...nbsp;Luke 17:11-19; &nbsp;John 8:48 ). The animosity was so great that the Jews bypassed Samaria as they traveled between Galilee and Judea. They went an e
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• Persecution
  ...ons in every nation, and town, and family. Judaism was the religion of the Jews, but Christianity gathered or created its own clientele. John saw ‘a grea ...sacred, or banished, and the children sold for slaves; besides innumerable Jews, who shared the same cruelties, chiefly by means of the infernal courts of
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• Rome
  ...in the wars carried on by Trajan against the Dacians. This people lived in modern [[Transylvania]] and also south of the [[Carpathians]] in Wallachia and par ...l idea; but many of the principal buildings which attract the attention of modern travellers in ancient Rome were not yet built. The streets were generally n
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• Alexander
  ...introduced because, from his invasion of Palestine, the intercourse of the Jews with the [[Greeks]] became intimate, and influenced many events of their su ...). Calvin thought him a convert to [[Christianity]] from Judaism, whom the Jews would have sacrificed as a victim to the fury of the rabble. </p> <p> '''5.
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• Canon Of The Old Testament
  ...criticism is essential. The [[Interpretation]] of the OT must differ among Jews and Christians. The logic of events cannot be Ignored, and the [[Advent]] o ...ght of the gulf that separates the Hebrew canon from the Apocrypha. To the Jews, saith Scripture," were committed the oracles of God" (&nbsp;Romans 3:2). I
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• Christianity
  ...of Christianity </i> , 1905]; A. M. Fairbairn, <i> The Place of Christ in Modern [[Theology]] </i> , 1893, and <i> [[Philosophy]] of the Christian Religion ...prophesies recorded in the New Testament; and from the preservation of the Jews as a distinct people, notwithstanding the various difficulties and persecut
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• Acts Of The Apostles
  ...mentioned, &nbsp; Acts 14:7; &nbsp; Acts 14:21; &nbsp; Acts 14:25 , or the Jews may have been weak and without a synagogue in those places. ( <em> b </em> ...rdinal point of time specified is in &nbsp;Acts 18:2, the expulsion of the Jews from Rome under Claudius Ceasar, A.D. 52. </p> <p> No book of the New Testa
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• Gospels
  ...of Jesus </i> , Boston, 1910; J. R. Cohu, <i> The Gospels in the Light of Modern Research </i> , Oxford, 1909; E. R. Buckley, <i> An Introductions the Synop ...is His Divine glory breaking forth the brighter amidst the darkness of the Jews' opposition. </p> <p> Each of the four, while recognizing the Lord's other
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• Pilate
  ...the Emperor, and as such could be dismissed and ruined without appeal. The Jews, when they saw that Roman justice might win and Jesus be released, held ove ...n, to which the Romans themselves had allowed a certain authority over all Jews throughout the Empire. Hence, mistaking the nature of the work, they sent a
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• Judaism
  ...irituality; and the whole [[Mosaic]] ritual was of a typical nature. See [[Jews]] . </p> ...e Talmud. </p> <p> See those articles, and books recommended under article JEWS, in this work. </p>
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• Thessalonica
  ...]] City.’ It has now a population of 130,000, of whom 60,000 are Sephardic Jews, speaking a corrupt form of Spanish, called Ladino. </p> <p> Literature.-W. ...alonica. The population of Saloniki is even now 60,000, of whom 10,000 are Jews. </p> <p> Trade in all ages attracted the latter to Thessalonica, and their
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• Egypt
  ...e; but they of Heliopolis that the king was with a vast force pursuing the Jews, because they were carrying away the riches borrowed of the Egyptians. Then ...he dates of composition. It may be remarked that there were settlements of Jews in [[Pathros]] (Upper Egypt) as early as the days of Jeremiah, and papyri i
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• Baptism
  ...[[Messiah]] (Edersheim).]ii. 746, Appendixxii.). It may be added that the Jews in later times would not have borrowed baptism from the Christians, though ..." the latter phrase referring to &nbsp;Daniel 2:44; &nbsp;Daniel 7:14. The Jews, as a nation, brought the "curse" on their land ("earth") by not repenting,
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• Law
  ...cribed in the hearts’ of men ignorant of the Mosaic Code and counting with Jews as ‘lawless.’ This Divine <em> jus </em> (and <em> fas </em> ) <em> gen ...and rules found in the Old Testament were never formally enacted among the Jews; were traditional from an earlier age; and received at different times the
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• Christ In Jewish Literature
  ...n pointing to His assumption of power and authority as the reason ‘of much modern antipathy to Jesus, so far as it exists.’ He did not, at least publicly,
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• Money
  ...00 denarius-drachms or £4 sterling. </p> <p> For the later coinage of the Jews, which was confined to the two periods of revolt against the Roman power, i ...such guidelines, the postexilic Jewish community monetarily enslaved poor Jews by loaning money at interest so that they could pay their taxes, a travesty
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