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2. Part I. pp. 197, 215-228; Part II. pp. ix.-xii. (E. C. B.)ANTHONY OF PADUA, SAINT (1195-1231), the most celebrated of the followers of Saint Francis of Assisi, was born at Lisbon on the 15th of August 1195. In his fifteenth year he ent...
3. viii. 10, it is said that the little horn "waxed great, even to the hostof heaven; and cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground." Similarly Pompey, in the second psalm of Solomon, is obviously represented as the dragon of chaos, and...
4. lxv. 8), written in 344, forms an appendix on the Messianic fulfilmentof prophecy, together with a treatment of the chronology from Adam to Christ. Aphraates impresses a reader favourably by his moral earnestness, his guilelessness, his moderation...
5. i. Canonical:--We cannot enter here into a discussion of the above passages and books.[1] All are probably pseudepigraphic except the passages from Ezekiel and Joel. Of the remaining passages...
6. ii. Extra-canonical:--(100 B.C. to 1 B.C.) 1 Enoch i.-v.; xxxvii.-lxxi.; xci.-civ. Testaments of the XII. Patriarchs, i.e. T. Lev. x., xiv.-xvi., T. Jud. xxi. 6-xxiii, T. Zeb. ix., T. Dan. v. 6, 7. P...
7. Act iii. the parusia itself. (See Wendt, _Lehre Jesu_, i. 12-21;_2 Thessalonians ii._--The earliest form of Pauline eschatology is essentially Jewish. He starts from the fundamental thought of Jewish apocalyptic that the end of the world wil...
8. i. Palestinian Jewish Literature:--9. ii. Hellenistic Jewish Literature:--LITERATURE.--Texts:--Holmes and Parsons, _Vet. Test. Graecum cum var. lectionibus_ (Oxford, 1798-1827); Swete, _Old Testament in Greek_, i.-iii. (Cambridge, 1887-1894); Fritzsch...
10. vi. 93) shows acquaintance with one of the chief doctrines of thebook--the perpetual virginity of Mary. Finally, as Justin's statements as to the birth of Jesus in a cave and Mary's descent from David show in all probability his acquaintance...
11. ii. 703) assigns it to the latter half of the 2nd century, but Zahn(_Gesch. Kan._ ii. 771), on good grounds, to the earlier half. The latter scholar shows that probably it was used by Justin (_Dial._ 88). At all events it circulated among the M...
12. ii. 1-25) has given strong grounds for regarding the Acts of John andPeter as derived from one and the same author, but there are like affinities existing between the Acts of Peter and those of Paul. For a discussion of this work see Zahn, _Gesch...
13. iii. 3) by name, and first referred to by the African poet Commodianabout A.D. 250. Harnack, who was the first to show that these Acts were Catholic in character and not Gnostic as had previously been alleged, assigns their composition to this p...