Acts of the Apostles


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Acts of the Apostles

 (ăkts)
pl.n. (used with a sing. verb)
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Acts of the Apostles

n
(Bible) the fifth book of the New Testament, describing the development of the early Church from Christ's ascension into heaven to Paul's sojourn at Rome. Often shortened to: Acts
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Acts′ of the Apos′tles


n.
a book of the New Testament. Also called Acts.
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Noun1.Acts of the Apostles - a New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at RomeActs of the Apostles - a New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome
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New Testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible
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Translations
Apostelgeschichte
Apostolien teot

Acts of the Apostles

n (Bible) the Acts of the Apostles → gli Atti degli Apostoli
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Despite many eminent volumes commenting on books of the Old and New Testaments, it never had a commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. A new series of the ICC was begun with the two-volume commentary on Romans by C.
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Gonzalez opens his slim volume on the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles with the claim that its author is the most undervalued in the New Testament.
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He then examines the Gospel According to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles to examine encounters between Paul and other gospel preachers with Roman imperialism and finds that Luke does not link the redemption offered by Christ to political liberation, and inquires about the hermeneutical possibility of developing a political Christology today.
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We read in the Acts of the Apostles that there were those who insisted, "Unless you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice, you cannot be saved" (Acts 15:1b).
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This now defunct ceremony arose from Simon Magus, in the Acts of the Apostles, who tried to buy from the Apostles the power of healing or laying-on of hands.
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In the Acts of the Apostles it is used to signify the sinfulness of sin, which leads to the bitterest grief.
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