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Definition of Acts of the Apostles
1. Noun. A New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome.
Definition of Acts of the Apostles
1. Proper noun. (biblical) A book in the New Testament of the Bible, also known as Acts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acts Of The Apostles
Literary usage of Acts of the Apostles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Beginnings of Christianity by Paul Wernle, Theodor Mommsen, Marion J. Wright, Gustav Adolph Bienemann, Heinrich Kiepert, William Douglas Morrison (1904)
"All this was done before the Acts of the Apostles and the Pastoral epistles
existed, just as it is done to-day on the basis of these writings. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"This seems neither an attempt to merge the two canonical accounts (Zahn), nor
proof that Papias knew not the Gospel of Matthew and the Acts of the Apostles; ..."
3. Journal of Theological Studies (1903)
"Addresses on the Acts of the Apostles. By EDWARD WHITE EL sometime Archbishop of
Canterbury. (Macmillan & Co.) 1901. THIS weighty volume of addresses was ..."
4. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"... s Acts of the Apostles in rhyme. His merit as a Musician. ... he projected a
translation of the Acts of the Apostles into familiar metre. ..."
5. Unitarian Principles Confirmed by Trinitarian Testimonies: Being Selections by Octavius Brooks Frothingham, John Wilson (1880)
"... doubts and the reforming of mistakes, but in the Gospels and the Acts of the
Apostles, that men are to learn what are the fundamental articles of faith. ..."
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