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" And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the overseer verbally... "
Traditional Festivals [2 Volumes]: A Multicultural Encyclopedia
by Christian Roy - 2005 - 548 pages
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Reading Salvation: Word, Worship, and the Mysteries

Scott Hahn - Religion - 2005 - 183 pages
...is an assembly in the same place of all who live in cities, or in country districts; and the records of the apostles, or the writings of the prophets, are read as long as we have time. Then the reader concludes: and the president verbally instructs and exhorts us to the...
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The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 4

Erwin Fahlbusch, Geoffrey William Bromiley - Reference - 1999 - 994 pages
...Justin Martyr provides a direct description in about AD 150: "The memoirs of the apostles or [and?] the writings of the prophets are read as long as time permits. When the reader has finished, the president in a discourse urges and invites [us] to the imitation...
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Whose Word is It?: The Story Behind Who Changed The New Testament and Why

Bart D. Ehrman - Religion - 2006 - 268 pages
...written to Laodicea" (Col. 4:16). Recall, too, Justin Martyr's report that "On the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together...of the prophets are read, as long as time permits" (i Apol. 67). The same point is made in other early Christian writings. For example, in the book of...
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An Introduction to the History of Christianity: From the Early Church to the ...

George Herring - Religion - 2006 - 412 pages
...which is called the day of the sun there is an assembly of all who live in the towns or in the country; and the memoirs of the Apostles or the writings of...the prophets are read, as long as time permits. Then the reader ceases, and the president speaks, admonishing us and exhorting us to imitate these excellent...
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Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament

David L. Dungan - Religion - 2007 - 248 pages
...the day called Sunday, there is a meeting in one place of those who live in cities or the country, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of...prophets are read as long as time permits. [Then] the president in a discourse urges and invites us to the imitation of these noble things. [Then we...
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The Parables of Jesus

Luise Schottroff - Religion - 1990 - 302 pages
..."On the day called Sunday there is a meeting in one place of those who live in cities or the country, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read as long as time permits. When the reader has finished, the president in a discourse urges and invites (us] to the imitation...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels

Stephen C. Barton - History - 2006 - 268 pages
...bread and when he had given thanks, said, 'Do this in remembrance of me.' Later he mentions that these memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read as long as time permits at the Sunday gathering. It seems most likely that it is to some or all of the four gospels that Justin...
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Christianity: An Introduction

Alister E. McGrath - Religion - 2006 - 401 pages
...the day which is called Sunday, all who live in the cities or in the countryside gather together in one place. And the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, so long as there is time. Then, when the reader has finished, the president delivers a discourse in...
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The Ten Commandments

William Barclay - Religion - 1998 - 212 pages
...to seek to go on observing it. Justin Martyr (AD 170) writes: 'On the day called the day of the Sun all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place' (First Apology 67). In his discussion with Trypho the Jew he says: "We do not live after the law, we...
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Preaching at the Double Feast: Homiletics for Eucharistic Worship

Michael Monshau - Religion - 2006 - 244 pages
...assembly in the same place of all who live in the cities, or in country districts; and the records of the Apostles, or the writings of the Prophets, are read as long as we have time. Then the reader concludes: and the President verbally instructs and exhorts us, to the...
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