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  • The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally ... The Epistle conforms with the teachings of Paul, and blends moral ...
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  • The ability of a chemical to behave as both an acid and a base is ... Generally, such a substance acts as an acid in the presence of a base ...
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  • Gamaliel the Elder, or Gamaliel I, was the leading Jewish teacher ... disciples from death in a story in the Book of Acts, in which he is quoted ...
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  • The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is ... The letter indicates that some of the Galatians had been influenced ...
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  • The Apocalypse of Peter or Revelation of Peter is an example of popular ... Written by a Christian author in Peter's name during the first ...
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  • (10 B.C.E. – 44 C.E.), was the last king of the Jews. He was the grandson ... but suffered several dramatic changes of fortune until the ascension ...
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  • to a story recorded in the apocryphal Acts of Peter, he was crucified head ... ===Sayings and Acts of Peter=== Two sayings are attributed to Peter ...
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  • The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian canon, is a ... The author notably omits the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of ...
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  • The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States ... The most controversial of the four statutes was the Sedition Act, ...
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  • In Christianity, the disciples were originally the students of Jesus ... John the Baptist also had disciples, as did some of the Old Testament ...
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  • The Epistle of Jude is a book in the New Testament of the Christian ... was permissible under the doctrine of Christian freedom from the ...
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  • C.E., best known for his role in the trial of Jesus. His full name was Yosef ... A member of the party of the Sadducees, Caiaphas was the son-in-law ...
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  • The Second Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament attributed ... The dating of this epistle has proved very difficult. Commentaries ...
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  • Hebrew: Mattay or Mattithyahu; "Gift of Yahweh"—first century ... Described as a tax collector working near the Sea of Galilee, Matthew ...
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  • colonists against against the imposition of a British tax on tea and to ... by Great Britain on the colonies. In protest of the tax, Sons of Liberty patriots ...
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  • Sabotage is deliberate action taken with the purpose of weakening ... Although the use of direct violence against people appears to be a ...
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  • Pope Saint Marcellinus was the bishop of Rome beginning c. 296 until ... that he indeed did so but had repented of his sin and redeemed himself ...
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  • and Hippolytus), and the apocryphal Acts of Peter and Clementine literature. ... ===Acts of Peter=== The apocryphal Acts of Peter (ca. 150-200 C.E. ...
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  • The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the New Testament. It is commonly ... Acts tells the story of the Early Christian church, with particular ...
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  • in Moscow, Russia, which gives performances of ballet and opera. The theater ... ==Significance of the Name== The name comes from the Russian word, ...
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