David Roberts - Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, 1850. Looking southwest 注¹:犹太人历史上的第二圣殿时期(Second Temple period)是公元前530年到公元70年之间,也就是耶路撒冷第二圣殿存在的时候。法利赛派(Pharisees,认为圣殿是不必要的,律法<Torah>³² 是犹太人生活中最重要的方面)、...
St. Paul in prisonSt. Paul the Apostle in prison, where tradition holds he wrote the epistle to the Ephesians. Of the 27 books in theNew Testament, 13 are attributed to Paul, and approximately half of another,Acts of the Apostles, deals with Paul’s life and works. Thus, about half ...
although Frank does not say so, Fraeulein Schicklgruber had threatened to bring a suit against the Frankenbergers. Frank wrote that many letters were subsequently exchanged between them and Hitler's grandmother, which seemed to him to be evidence of a cordial relationship. Nevertheless, both he a...
Letter of Paul to the Romans The sixth book of the New Testament, the Letter of Paul to the Romans, was written by St. Paul while he was in Corinth about 57 CE. It was addressed to the Christian church at Rome, whose congregation he hoped to visit for the first time on his way to...
It is the first Letter that Paul wrote from prison and can be dated to A.D. 56, although others place it with the Letters of Paul’s Roman captivity between A.D. 61 and 63. We know that Paul was imprisoned more than once. —Galatians: A fiery Letter to a Church in full crisis;...
Acts 20:2 Specifically, the city of Corinth. Acts 20:3 During this period in Corinth Paul wrote Romans to prepare his way there according to his plan in 19:21. He may also have written Galatians (see 14:28). Acts 20:3 That is, by land, up to Philippi. Acts 20:5 The men mentio...
Romans 1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David,
, he talked only with Peter, and with James the brother of Jesus, already beginning to dominate the church at Jerusalem. Perhaps it was on this occasion that James told him that the Master had appeared to him also, after the resurrection, as Paul later wrote to his friends at Corinth....
In the last century, Watchman Nee (1903-1972) wrote a book entitled, The Normal Christian Life (1938-1939), in which he contended that what was "normal" in the early church that we should expect as the norm today. O Lord, bring such a profound revelation to our hearts that your ...
All the real apostles are documented in scripture. There is no support for Paul’s claim other than his own word in the epistles that he wrote. Of the 22 times he is called an apostle, only two come from someone other than himself. That ‘someone’ was Luke, Paul’s friend, traveling...