CHAPTER 8 Acts 8:1-4 . PERSECUTION CONTINUED, IN WHICH SAUL TAKES A PROMINENT PART--HOW OVERRULED FOR GOOD. 1. Saul was consenting unto his d...
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. CHAPTER VIII. The Missionary Labors of Philip. SUMMARY.--The Persecution at Jerusalem. Saul's Zeal in Persecution. Philip's ...
EVENING. IT was a hot and sultry day. At noon the streets of Capernaum were almost entirely deserted. But now the sun's rays fell more obliquely and ...
Homily I.Homily I.-------- Chapter I.-Boyish Questionings.I Clement, being a Roman citizen,(1) even from my earliest youth was able to live chastely, ...
Homily XVII.Homily XVII.-------- Chapter I.-Simon Comes to Peter.The next day, therefore, as Peter was to hold a discussion with Simon, he rose earlie...
ROMANS. CHAPTER IX. The Rejection of the Jews. SUMMARY.--Paul's Deep Sympathy for His Nation. God's Promise to the Jewish Race not Void. The Argum...
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. CHAPTER XIII. The Era of Gentile Missions. SUMMARY.--Fasting and Prayer at Antioch. The Holy Spirit Directs Paul and Barnab...
CHAPTER 2 The Prophecies Of Balaam - The End Of Balaam - Parallel Between Balaam And Judas (NUMBERS 22:36-31:1-20) THE meeting between the king of Moa...
Book IV.Book IV. Sec. I.-On Helping the Poor. Those Who Have No Children Should Adopt Orphans, and Treat Them as Their Own Children.I. When any Christ...
The Epistle of Ignatius to the PhilippiansThe Epistle of Ignatius to the PhilippiansIgnatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church of God whic...
Homily XLVI.Homily XLVI. ACTS XXI. 18, 19.-And the day following Paul went in with us unto James: and all the elders were present. And when he had sal...
The Life of S. HilarionThe Life of S. HilarionThe life of Hilarion was written by Jerome in 390 at Bethlehem. Its object was to further the ascetic li...
Book VII.Book VII.-------- Chapter I.-Journey from Tripolis.At length leaving Tripolis,(1) a city of Phoenicia, we made our first halt at Ortosias, no...
DIVINATION div-i-na'-shun: 1. Definition 2. Kinds of Divination 3. Fundamental Assumption in Divination 4. Legitimate and Illegitimate Divination ...
Appendix. Against All Heresies. Appendix. Against All Heresies.(1) [Translated by the Rev. S. Thelwall.]-------- Chapter I.-Earliest Heretics:(2) Simo...
Book III.Book III. Chapter I.-Of the Reign of Julianus; How from a Child He Was Brought Up in Piety and Lapsed into Impiety; And in What Manner, Thoug...
APOCRYPHAL ACTS, THE SEPARATE ACTS _B. THE SEPARATE ACTS_ The Apocryphal Ac dealt with in this article are the Leucian Ac mentioned by Photius in his...
A Greater zealot for Paganism than Julian, is not to be found in the history of mankind. Temper, talents, power, and resentment, all conspired to che...
SOLOMON sol'-o-mun (shelomoh; New Testament Solomon): I. EARLY LIFE 1. Name and Meaning 2. Sources 3. Birth and Upbringing 4. His Accession 5. C...
The Tenth Persecution, Under Diocletian, A.D. 303 Under the Roman emperors, commonly called the Era of the Martyrs, was occasioned partly by the incr...