The White Shield - Softcover

Mason, Caroline Atwater

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1432691414 ISBN 13: 9781432691417

Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

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Foreword A mong the apostle legends which circulated throughout the Christian churches of the second century was that entitled the Acta Fault et Theklae. This document, itself not later than about A. D. 130, was an amplified and embellished version of a much earlier tale. The original form of the story is proved by internal evidence to have been produced little later than the middle of the first century A. D. Numerous MSS. of the Acta are known to exist, including versions in Greek, Latin, Sniac, A rabic, and Slavonic. Prof. Rendel Harris mentions seeing at Mount Sinai eight or nine different MSS. During the century following A. D. 70, Asia Minor became the spiritual center of Christianity. The gospel spread here with marvelous rapidity from the time of Paul, so that we have it on the testimony of Pliny, that in his province of Bithynia before A. D.
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• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1432691414
• ISBN 13: 9781432691417
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184