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On James's arrival in London, the Puritan clergy presented him with the Millenary Petition, allegedly signed by a thousand English clergy, requesting reforms in the church, particularly the abolition of confirmation, wedding rings, and the term "priest", and that the wearing of cap and surplice, which they regarded as "outward badges of Popish errours", be made optional. [2]
Annunciation to Joachim and Anna, fresco by Gaudenzio Ferrari, 1544–45 (detail). The Gospel of James (or the Protoevangelium of James) [Note 1] is a second-century infancy gospel telling of the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary, her upbringing and marriage to Joseph, the journey of the couple to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, and events immediately following.
The author is identified as "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ" (James 1:1). James (Jacob, Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, romanized: Ya'aqov, Ancient Greek: Ιάκωβος, romanized: Iakobos) was an extremely common name in antiquity, and a number of early Christian figures are named James, including: James the son of Zebedee, James the Less, James the son of Alphaeus, and James ...
The International Critical Commentary (or ICC) is a series of commentaries in English on the text of the Old Testament and New Testament. It is currently published by T&T Clark , now an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing .
James the Just, or a variation of James, brother of the Lord (Latin: Iacobus from Hebrew: יעקב, Ya'aqov and Ancient Greek: Ἰάκωβος, Iákōbos, can also be Anglicized as "Jacob"), was, according to the New Testament, a brother of Jesus. He was the first leader of the Jerusalem Church of the Apostolic Age.
Beginning in the early-to-mid 1990s, the hardback editions (including revised and/or second editions) have been characterized by a light-tan cloth binding with crimson lettering on the spine, and the individual volumes are approximately 6.25 inches (15.9 cm) in width, 9.5 inches (24 cm) in height, and of variable thickness.
A Commentary on the Holy Bible, edited by J. R. Dummelow (1909) Peake's Commentary on the Bible, edited by Arthur Samuel Peake (1919). Revised edition, edited by Matthew Black and H. H. Rowley (1962) The Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary on the Bible (1971) Harper's Bible Commentary, edited by James L. Mays (1988)
James I and his royal progeny by Charles Turner, from a mezzotint by Samuel Woodburn (1814), after Willem de Passe. James's queen, Anne of Denmark, gave birth to seven children who survived beyond birth, of whom three reached adulthood: [200] Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (19 February 1594 – 6 November 1612). Died, probably of typhoid ...