| William Stevens (biographer.) - 1833 - 786 pages
...himself a persecutor, being the prince of whom St. Luke says, Now, about that time, Herod the king.f 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 apprehended... | |
| Menzies Rayner - 1833 - 202 pages
...the beginning of the chapter, the historian, St. Luke, says, " 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 ; and when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and... | |
| Arthur Philip Perceval - 1833 - 48 pages
...Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified." Mark xv. 15. " Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church....with the sword; and because he saw it pleased the Jems, he proceeded further to take Peter also." Acts xii. 1, 2, 3. tions ?" " Curse ye Meroz, saith... | |
| William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...spurn me from his Bight." OCTOBER 6. — " Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his handi to vex certain of the Church. And he killed James...the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also." — Acts xii. 1, 2, 3. PERSECUTION is a thing of which we... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1835 - 168 pages
...pass in the days of Claudius Caesar. LESSON XCII. ACTS, CHAP. xn. 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 farther to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had... | |
| 1835 - 604 pages
...through .IBSCM 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 (Then were the leavened bread.) Peter also, days of unAnd when he had... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1835 - 636 pages
...did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. 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. The Gospel. St. Matt. xx. 20. THEN came to him the mother... | |
| Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1835 - 272 pages
...the eleven apostles ; and then it is to hear of his death. " Herod the king stretched forth his hand to vex certain of the church ; and he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword." This Hetod was Herod Agrippa, the grandson of Herod the Great, in whose reign Christ was born. He was... | |
| 1835 - 166 pages
...a king. The sacred history here most accurately corresponds to authentic profane history. longed to the Church. And he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword. And, seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened... | |
| Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1835 - 276 pages
...the eleven apostles ; and then it is to hear of his death. " Herod the king stretched forth his hand to vex certain of the church ; and he killed James, the brother of John, v/ith the sword." This Herod was Herod Agrippa, the grandson of Herod the Great, in whose reign Christ... | |
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