The Composition and Date of Acts, Issues 1-2 |
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Agnostos Theos altar Antioch Antt Apollonius Apollonius of Tyana Apostelgeschichte Apostles Aram Aramaic document Aramaic Gospels Aramaic idiom Athens Blass Book of Acts certainly chapters Christian church clause Codex Bezae composed composition context Dalman dialect evidence example fact faith famine Gentiles Greek half of Acts Hebrew idiom Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews Josephus Judas Judas of Galilee Judea Koiné Komm language literary Lord Luke Luke 24 Luke's Lysanias Macc maic Matt mean ment merely mistranslation narrative narrator Naukratis Norden Old Testa Old Testament original Aramaic Palestine Palestinian passage Paul Peshitta Philostratus phrase Preuschen probably prophet reason remarkable rendering scholars seems Semitic source speech style Syriac tetrarchy Theudas thing Third Gospel tion translation translation-Greek verb verse Wellhausen Wendt word writer written αὐτοῦ διὰ ἐν τῷ ἐπὶ καὶ τῇ τὴν τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶν דִי מִן
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Page 10 - And day by day, continuing stedfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they did take their food with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people.
Page 14 - And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Page 70 - For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; And the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished ; And half of the city shall go forth into captivity, And the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Page 16 - And by faith in his name hath his name made this man strong, whom ye behold and know : yea, the faith which is through him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Page 25 - Wherefore, of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
Page 36 - Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost...
Page 33 - Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness : and I gave them my statutes and showed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them : moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
Page 20 - And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world : which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cesar.
Page 70 - ... and when they have made an end of breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
Page 7 - Professor Torrey proceeds to give what he considers numerous "translation Aramaisms," not Hebraisms. "The truth is that the language of all fifteen chapters is translation-Greek through and through, generally preserving even the order of words.