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The Satyricon, Satyricon liber (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), or Satyrica, [1] is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius in the late 1st century AD, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as Titus Petronius.
Acts 7 is the seventh chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the address of Stephen before the Sanhedrin and his execution outside [ 1 ] Jerusalem , and introduces Saul (who later became Paul the Apostle ).
Saint Luke the Evangelist by Toros Roslin. The Acts of the Apostles is a genre of early Christian literature, recounting the lives and works of the apostles of Jesus.The Acts (Latin: Acta; Greek: Πράξεις Práxeis) are important for many reasons, one of them being the concept of apostolic succession. [1]
The name "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century. It is not known whether this was an existing name for the book or one invented by Irenaeus; it does seem clear that it was not given by the author, as the word práxeis (deeds, acts) only appears once in the text (Acts 19:18) and there it refers not to the apostles but to deeds confessed by their followers.
Petronius, Satyricon [298] Franciscus Puteolanus [299] Milan [298] The edition that also contains Tacitus' Agricola [300] This edition of Petronius was made from a manuscript of Class O, which present only short excerpts of the Satyricon and almost nothing of the Cena Trimalchionis [fr; de; la]. In 1575 a new edition was published in Lyon from ...
Before Jesus left, he charged the disciples with the task of acting as 'witnesses' to him, in the locations that can be read as a 'geographical program' for the whole book of Acts: The first 7 chapters set in Jerusalem; Chapter 8—11 record the spread of the gospel to the surrounding areas within Syria-Palestine ('Judea and Samaria')
Quartilla is a character in the Satyricon which is said to be the "first picaresque" novel in Latin [2] although it is not completely extant. This story was written by Petronius Arbiter in the first century.
The Acts of Paul is one of the major works and earliest pseudepigraphal series from the New Testament apocrypha also known as Apocryphal Acts. This work is part of a body of literature either about or purporting to be written by Paul the Apostle , including letters, narratives, prayers, and apocalypses.