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Antioch on the Orontes (/ ˈænti.ɒk /; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, romanized:Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou, pronounced [anti.ó.kʰeː.a]) [ note 1 ] was a Hellenistic Greek city [ 1 ][ 2 ] founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC. [ 3 ] One of the most important Greek cities of the Hellenistic period, [ 2 ...
The Church of Antioch (Arabic: كنيسة أنطاكية, romanized:kánīsa ʾanṭākiya, pronounced [ka.niː.sa ʔan.tˤaː.ki.ja]) was the first of the five major churches of the early pentarchy in Christianity, with its primary seat in the ancient Greek city of Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey). The earliest record of the church of ...
Acts 13. Acts 15:22–24 in Latin (left column) and Greek (right column) in Codex Laudianus, written about AD 550. Acts 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the first missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas to Cyprus and Pisidia.
Ignatius' feast day was kept in his own Antioch on 17 October, the day on which he is now celebrated in the Catholic Church and generally in western Christianity, although from the 12th century until 1969 it was put at 1 February in the General Roman Calendar. [15] [16] In the Eastern Orthodox Church it is observed on 20 December. [17]
According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel (Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being lowered from heaven (Acts 10:11). A voice from heaven told Peter to kill and eat, but since the vessel (or ...
Tabor 2013 Paul is critical both theologically and empirically of claims of moral or lineal superiority of Jews while conversely strongly sustaining the notion of a special place for the Children of Israel. Paul's theology of the gospel accelerated the separation of the messianic sect of Christians from Judaism, a development contrary to Paul's own intent. He wrote that faith in Christ was ...
The council approved three creeds. [3] The “Second Creed of Antioch, often known both in the ancient and the modern world as the 'Dedication' Creed, was the Council's most important result.” [4] (RH, 285-6) Its “chief bête noire [the thing that it particularly dislikes] is Sabellianism, the denial of a distinction between the three within the Godhead.” [5] (RH, 287)
It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events relating to first-century Christianity. The New Testament's background, the first division of the Christian Bible, is called the Old Testament, which is based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible; together they are regarded as Sacred Scripture by Christians.