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Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 101

Chapter XXVII.

… Luke made known the doings of the apostles up to the time when Paul was brought to Rome under the emperor Nero. As to Nero, I shall not say that he was the worst of …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 52

Chapter XIV.--The Preaching of the Apostle Peter in Rome.

… Afterward, when Peter and Paul were so prominently connected with the reign of Nero, the visit of Simon was postponed to synchronize with the presence of the two apostles in Rome. A report of Simon …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 190

Chapter III.

… departure is at hand." [2361] He then, in the fourteenth year of Nero on the same day with Peter, was beheaded at Rome for Christ's sake and was buried in the Ostian way, the …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 191

Chapter VI.

… Val; omit Paul T 25 30 31 Her. Chapter VIII. Mark [2374] the disciple and interpreter of Peter wrote a short gospel at the request of the brethren at Rome embodying what he had heard …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 189

Chapter I.

… That Peter met Simon Magus in Rome is a post-apostolic legend. Compare the Clementine literature. [2341] Apocryphal. For literature on apocryphal works see Ante-Nic. Fath. ed. Coxe (N. Y. Chr. Lit. Co.,) vol …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 193

Chapter XI.

… He was put to death by Nero two years before Peter and Paul were crowned with martyrdom. [2395] Died 65. [2396] SotionCypr. Val. Her.; Phothion fotion, fotinus Socion or Sozonis, the mss. [2397] and Seneca …

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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 124

[1938] Sed ego id in eo jure ab ancipiti vindico.

… And while Nero reigned, the Apostle Peter came to Rome, and, through the power of God committed unto him, wrought certain miracles, and, by turning many to the true religion, built up a faithful and …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 65

[544] ekklesiastikos anher.

… before Paul came to Rome, as his Epistle to the Romans shows, and Peter cannot have reached there until some time after Paul. It was, however, a very early fiction that Paul and Peter together …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 420

Teaching of Peter. See Peter.

Teaching of Peter. See Peter. Telesphorus, bishop of Rome, [2895]177, [2896]182, [2897]221, [2898]242. Telesphorus, addressed by Dionysius, [2899]311. Temptations, work on, by Dionysius, [2900]311. Tertullian, family and culture of …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 396

Chapter XIV.

… At Rome Nero was the first who stained with blood the rising faith. Then is Peter girt by another, [8327] when he is made fast to the cross. Then does Paul obtain a birth suited …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 161

XLVII.

Peter preached the Gospel in Pontus, and Galatia, and Cappadocia, and Betania, and Italy, and Asia, and was afterwards crucified by Nero in Rome with his head downward, as he had himself desired to suffer …

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Chrysostom — Galatians through Philemon • SECTION 235

Homily X.

… For Paul was ready to come to him; for we find him saying, "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God." (1 Tim …

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Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypse of Peter & Other Early Texts • SECTION 68

Introduction.

… When the blessed Paul was at Rome through the word of the Lord, it happened that a certain servant of a ruler of Spain came to Rome with letters of his master's, and heard …

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The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 487

[3128] The reading of the ms. is "thirtieth."

Peter closed his life in Rome, under Nero. And I think this apostle's visit fully explained by the fact that the Roman Christians were so largely "of the circumcision," that St. Paul himself might …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 51

Chapter XIII.--Simon Magus. [360]

… 12, &c.; Acts of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (Ante-Nicene Fathers, Am. ed. VIII. p. 477 sqq.); Epiphanius, Hær. XXI.; and Theodoret, Hær. Fab. I. 1. See also Lipsius, article in Schinkel's …

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