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The church as the unique Body of Christ, the issue of the work of Christ (Eph. 1:22-23), is composed of all genuine believers in Christ (Rom. 12:5; 1 Cor. 12:12) and, according to the New Testament revelation, is manifested in time and space in local churches, each of which includes all the believers in a given city, regardless of where they ...
The first English New Testament to use the verse divisions was a 1557 translation by William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579). The first Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published shortly afterwards by Sir Rowland Hill [ 21 ] in 1560.
The canon of the New Testament is the set of books many modern Christians regard as divinely inspired and constituting the New Testament of the Christian Bible.For most churches, the canon is an agreed-upon list of 27 books [1] that includes the canonical Gospels, Acts, letters attributed to various apostles, and Revelation.
It is the commonly used translation of Local Churches (affiliation). The New Testament was published in 1985 with study aids, and was revised in 1991. [1] Text-only editions of the New Testament and of the complete Bible became available in 1993 and 1999, respectively. [2] The full study Bible was published in 2003.
Adolf von Harnack, [145] John Knox, [146] and David Trobisch, [10] among other scholars, have argued that the church formulated its New Testament canon partially in response to the challenge posed by Marcion. Polycarp, [147] Irenaeus [148] and Tertullian [149] held the epistles of Paul to be divinely inspired "scripture".
The Ethiopic Didascalia, or Didesqelya, is a book of Church order in 43 chapters, distinct from the Didascalia Apostolorum, but similar to books I–VII of the Apostolic Constitutions, where it most likely originates. Ethiopic Clement should not be confused with 1 Clement or 2 Clement. [2]
Murdock Translation of the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament (2015) compiled by Ewan MacLeod; The Syriac New Testament, based on the western text, James Murdock (1851) [24] The New Testament According to the Eastern Text. Translated from Original Aramaic Sources. Philadelphia: A.J. Holman, 1940, based on the eastern text, George Lamsa
[136] [137] [138] [page needed] This teaching is based on the New Testament examples of the church in Jerusalem (Acts 8:1), the church in Antioch (Acts 13:1), the church in Corinth (1 Cor. 1:2), the seven churches in seven cities in Asia (Rev. 1:11), etc. Watchman Nee and his co-workers, including Witness Lee, established local churches ...