The Christians who were dispersed from Jerusalem at the death of Stephen preached the Gospel at Antioch (Ac 11:19). It was from Jerusalem that Agabus and the other prophets who foretold the famine came to Antioch (Ac 11:27-28); and Barnabas and Saul were consequently sent on a mission ...
It was in Antioch that the followers of Jesus were first called Christians after they severed themselves from the synagogue about 20 years after Jesus' death. Antioch is one of the three original patriarchates (see patriarch). Aurelian, who recovered the city from Shapur I of Persia, ...
In the early period, cave churches in Cappadocia, Antioch andEphesuswere places where Christians worshiped secretly. On the other hand, the same churches received great attention later inChristian Rome. When Christianity was recognized as the official religion of the Roman Empire (during the reign ...
Is it more than modern Christians often too lightly sing?-"Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall," etc.So the holy martyr adds, "Only let me attain unto Jesus Christ."The Epistle to the Romans is utterly inconsistent with any conception on his part, that Rome ...
12When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark,where many people had gathered and were praying.13Peter knocked at the outer entrance, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer the door.14When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so...
But the men who seized it in 1917 were no longer Christians. By 1917 the British people had been separated from the Church of Rome for almost four centuries. And even what Christianity remained among the Anglicans was rapidly waning as those isles became subsumed in the vast materialistic ...
Antioch was an early center of Christianity; Peter and Paul preached there. It was in Antioch that the followers of Jesus were first called Christians after they severed themselves from the synagogue about 20 years after Jesus' death. Antioch is one of the three original patriarchates (seepatri...
one of whose principal duties was the defense of the empire’s eastern border from Persian attacks. Antioch was also one of the earliest centres ofChristianity; it was there that the followers of Christ were first called Christians, and the city was the headquarters of the missionarySt. Paulab...