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  2. Book burning at Ephesus - Wikipedia

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    [1] The book burning at Ephesus is an event recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, where Christian converts at Ephesus, influenced by Paul the Apostle, burned their books of magic. Acts 19 provides an account of the event: Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.

  3. A Child's Garden of Verses - Wikipedia

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    Title Page of a 1916 US edition. A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2]

  4. Geneva Bible - Wikipedia

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    Officially known as the Authorized Version to be read in churches, the new Bible would come to bear his name as the so-called King James Bible or King James Version (KJV) elsewhere or casually. The first and early editions of the King James Bible from 1611 and the first few decades thereafter lack annotations, unlike nearly all editions of the ...

  5. Book of Ezekiel - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Ezekiel is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and one of the major prophetic books in the Christian Bible, where it follows Isaiah and Jeremiah. [1] According to the book itself, it records six visions of the prophet Ezekiel , exiled in Babylon, during the 22 years from 593 to 571 BC.

  6. King James Version - Wikipedia

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    John Speed's Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1611), bound into first King James Bible in quarto size (1612). The title of the first edition of the translation, in Early Modern English, was "THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Teſtament, AND THE NEW: Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties ...

  7. Pauline epistles - Wikipedia

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    A third epistle to Corinth, written in between 1 and 2 Corinthians, also called the Severe Letter, referenced at 2 Corinthians 2:4 [18] and 2 Corinthians 7:8-9 [19] An earlier epistle to the Ephesians referenced at Ephesians 3:3-4 [20] A possible Pauline Epistle to the Laodiceans, [16] referenced at Colossians 4:16 [21]

  8. Harrowing of Hell - Wikipedia

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    Colossians 1:18: "He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything." 1 Peter 3:18–19: "For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made ...

  9. Flaming sword (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    According to Robert Means Lawrence, [1] Arthur de Bles, and R.L. Giles, the angel who cast Adam and Eve out of Paradise was said to be Jophiel. [2] A flaming sword is a sword which is glowing with a flame which is produced by some supernatural power. Flaming swords have existed in legends and myths for thousands of years. [citation needed]