 | Alden Bradford - 1813 - 544 pages
...king stretched forth his hands to persecute some of 2 the church. And he killed James the brother 3 of John, with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of 4 unleavened bread.) And when he had... | |
 | Robert Henry - 1814 - 444 pages
...this can be true; for we are affured by St. Luke, that ib early as AD 44, " Herod the King ftretched forth his hands " to vex certain of the church. And he " killed James the brother of John with the " fword." l4 Simon Ze- Some other writers acquaint us, that it was lotei. the apoftle Simon furnamed... | |
 | Church of England - 1815 - 450 pages
...; thro' Jesus Christ our Lord". Amen. For the Epistle. Acts xii. 1. ABOUT that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church....the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 644 pages
...number. Toward the end of his reign Herod Agrippa became an open persecutor of the believers^ " and killed James the brother of John, with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded farther, to take Peter also. [Then were the days of unleavened bread.] And when he had... | |
 | Peter GANDOLPHY - 1815 - 552 pages
...the Epistle Acts xii. 1.11. In those days: Herod the king strttched forth liis hand to afflict some of the Church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to take up Peter also. Now it was in the days of (he... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1815 - 738 pages
...WESSON. Acts xii. 1. ll.—fn ttuue dat/s : Herod the king stretched forth his hand to afflict some of the Church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And seeing that it pleased the Jews he proceeded to take up Peter also. Now it was in the days of .azymes.... | |
 | Richard Stack - 1815 - 328 pages
...in which Judca, properly so called, was not a Roman province. In this persecution "he killed Jamrs. the brother of John, with. the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews'* he proceeded further to take Peter also."—Such arc too often the motives that influence the actions... | |
 | George Wilkins - 1816 - 264 pages
...they cast him out of the city and stoned him.— Acts, vii. 58. (4) And about that time Herod the King stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church, and he killed James the brother of John with th« sword. — Acts, xii. 1, 2. Peter in prison with an intention of putting him to death, had he... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...and Saul. Now about that v-1' time, Herod the king stretched forth his hands, to vex certain of 2. the Church. And he killed James the brother of John with the 3. sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. The Gospel.... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 456 pages
...IMPRISONS PETER, WHO IS DELIVERED BY AN ANGEL. From Acts, Chap. xii. Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church....the sword ; And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had... | |
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Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. 
