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1 1,1,1 | of the structure of the Church, of standards personal morality, 2 1,1,2 | honor ~and authority in the Church, for it points beyond itself 3 1,1,2 | ways of God. An an-~cient Church Father wrote, “God did not 4 1,1,2 | the Body of Christ, the Church of ~witnessing people journeying 5 1,1,3 | that ~it is the Book of the Church. According to God.s plan, 6 1,1,3 | This society is ~called the Church. By historical definition, 7 1,1,3 | historical definition, the Church is divided into the Old 8 1,1,3 | namely the word of ~God. The Church not only preserved the word 9 1,1,3 | continues to ~live in the Church and to lead her. Consequently, 10 1,1,3 | lead her. Consequently, the Church gives us correct guidance 11 1,1,4 | Evlaly, of the Alexandrine Church. Slowly but surely, the 12 1,1,4 | Pomazansky)~The Early Christian Church constantly dwelt in spirit 13 1,1,4 | books of the ~Hebrews. The Church also treasures them as sacred 14 1,1,4 | Scriptures valuable to the Church? The fact that a) they ~ 15 1,1,4 | are sufficient to make the Church esteem these books . the 16 1,1,4 | the historical books. The Church has ~accepted them, because 17 1,1,4 | righteousness (2 ~Tim. 3:16). ~The Church has received the sacred 18 1,1,4 | The Orthodox Christian Church includes them ~in the collection 19 1,1,4 | Testament sacred scriptures, the Church has shown that she is the ~ 20 1,1,4 | heir of the Old Testament Church . not of the national aspect 21 1,1,4 | conduct. Therefore, the Church makes use of ~her Old Testament 22 1,1,4 | Testament books, the Christian ~Church has not, in practice, had 23 1,1,4 | and ~certainly not every Church community did. As a source 24 1,1,4 | for ~Christian life in the Church, the New Testament, of course, 25 1,1,4 | Testament Psalter that the Church has constantly used it, 26 1,1,4 | we know of the Russian Church that although she had al-~ 27 1,1,4 | expressed in the writing of Church services, in iconography 28 1,1,4 | services, in iconography and church architec-~ture, and reflected 29 1,1,4 | originally established by the Church. ~ ~ ~ 8~ ~Understandest 30 1,1,4 | which proceeds from the Church. For this purpose the Church 31 1,1,4 | Church. For this purpose the Church offers ~us the patristic 32 1,1,4 | are chosen for use in the church ~services. Furthermore, 33 1,1,4 | services. Furthermore, if the Church offers us moral edification 34 1,1,4 | Apostle said of them, as the Church has also called them, and 35 1,1,5 | regarded as worthy by the Church, is not part of the holy 36 1,1,5 | always respected by the Early Church. In fact, the Greek Bible ~ 37 1,1,5 | The New Testament.~ The Church was born on the day of Pentecost 38 1,1,5 | years ~of her existence, the Church had no written documents 39 1,1,5 | the culture in which the Church lived, which was above all 40 1,1,5 | In due course, as the Church began to spread beyond her 41 1,1,5 | they began to be ~read in church services, along with the 42 1,1,5 | letters,. addressed to the Church as a whole, rather than ~ 43 1,1,5 | general. epistles. ~ As the Church spread, it also became necessary 44 1,1,5 | significant disagreement in the Church. There were parts of the 45 1,1,5 | There were parts of the Church for several centuries ~in 46 1,1,5 | regarded as .scripture. in the ~Church.s history comes from about 47 1,1,5 | existed in portions of the Church con-~cerning the Epistle 48 1,1,5 | there were portions of the Church in which other books than 49 1,1,5 | cept. For 336 years the Church had been living, growing, 50 1,1,5 | been ~written, after the Church (as many Protestants would 51 1,1,5 | liturgical worship of the Church was already well-defined ~ 52 1,1,5 | to that of the Orthodox Church today (a fact readily established 53 1,1,5 | from then to an Orthodox ~Church service now would find himself 54 1,1,5 | then, is that of a body of Church literature growing throughout 55 1,1,5 | the first ~70 years of the Church.s life. Some of these books 56 1,1,5 | ture. in a particular local church was that which was read 57 1,1,5 | that which was read at the Church services, along with the ~ 58 1,1,5 | the oral Tradition of the Church and the new ~books which 59 1,1,5 | of ~the early Christian Church or by the immediate successors 60 1,1,5 | in the governance of ~the Church (e.g., the .Shepherd. of 61 1,1,5 | in various parts of the Church (and some of them quite ~ 62 1,1,5 | creeds, the doctrines of the Church, the ~Eucharistic liturgy 63 1,1,5 | form of the Scriptures, the Church has, through her ~experience 64 1,1,5 | great theologians of the Church such as St. Gregory Nazianzus ( 65 1,1,6 | is used by the ~Orthodox Church. ~ ~The Latin translation ( 66 1,1,6 | learned fa-~thers of the Church in the 4th Century . published 67 1,1,6 | Jewish writings), the Western church slowly but surely began 68 1,1,6 | of the Roman Catholic Church. ~ ~The Slavonic translation.~ 69 1,1,6 | widely used in the Orthodox Church Services. Subsequently, ~ 70 1,1,6 | outstanding pastors of the Russian Church. ~ ~Other translations of 71 1,1,7 | of the living, dy-~namic Church of Christ, which had its 72 1,1,7 | It was ~the life of the Church throughout the first seventy 73 1,1,7 | the continuing life of the Church for more than another three 74 1,1,7 | apart from ~the life of the Church. If the Scriptures as we 75 1,1,7 | Holy Spirit upon and in the Church over a period hundreds of 76 1,1,7 | of the experience of the Church during those same centuries ( 77 1,1,7 | understanding. ~ And what is this .Church?. It is the same Church 78 1,1,7 | Church?. It is the same Church which was founded by Our 79 1,1,7 | bishops. It is the same Church which suffered intermittent 80 1,1,7 | heresies. It is the same Church which in the holy Councils 81 1,1,7 | life. ~ This is the same Church which teaches us to venerate 82 1,1,7 | by ~the Holy Spirit, the Church learned how to celebrate 83 1,1,7 | it is only through the Church that we have access to the 84 1,1,7 | it is like-~wise to the Church that we must turn for its 85 1,1,7 | should be apparent that the Church long precedes the Bible 86 1,1,7 | is quite certain that the Church founded by Our Lord was 87 1,1,7 | based on the Bible.. The ~Church created by the Holy Spirit 88 1,1,7 | have it to be truly the Church. ~ ~ 89 1,2,1 | the prototype of Christ.s Church. ~The crying out of oppressed 90 1,2,2 | likeness in them-~selves? The Church teaches that man in paradise 91 1,2,2 | stones be made bread. The Church Fathers prefer a direct, 92 1,2,2 | of good and ~evil.. The Church, rejoicing in her salvation 93 1,2,2 | follow the laws related to church services and ~priesthood ( 94 1,2,2 | in modified form, in our church services. ~ The disobedience 95 1,2,4 | everyday prayer at home and in ~church. Therefore, the universe 96 1,2,4 | such we see in Christian Church. They did not appear because 97 1,2,4 | tradition of the Orthodox Church of ~both East and West and 98 1,2,4 | West and of the Eastern Church in later centuries has been 99 1,3,5 | David with great respect. ~Church Fathers frequently use examples 100 1,3,0 | and are remembered by the ~Church on August 1/14. ~ The 3rd 101 1,4,2 | the similars (podobny) in church services. ~ The content 102 1,4,2 | Christ and the apostles, the Church of the early centuries often 103 1,4,2 | christianized. This means that the Church assigns Christian mean-~ 104 1,4,2 | means the people of the Church. The ~call to exterminate 105 1,4,4 | Ecclesiastes derives from Ecclesia.Church and means a church preacher. 106 1,4,4 | Ecclesia.Church and means a church preacher. In ~Hebrew this 107 1,4,4 | collection of ~sayings of a church preacher. ~ As the book 108 1,4,5 | account the ~voice of the Church. One needs to read the prophets 109 1,4,5 | that between Christ and the Church (Eph. 5:22-32). We often 110 1,4,5 | bride in the hymns of the Church where it is used to symbolize 111 1,5,5 | of the New Jerusalem (the Church) on the holy hill: ~ ~.Violence 112 1,5,5 | the faith (65), triumphant Church and the final judgment of 113 1,5,5 | about the enemies of the Church and the defeat ~of the hordes 114 1,5,5 | be a prophecy about the Church. Indeed, the Christian faith 115 1,5,5 | the perse-~cution of the Church in the times of antichrist. ~ 116 1,5,5 | fu-~ture Kingdom God, the Church. Some modern Biblical critics 117 1,5,5 | Savior of ~the World, the Church and God's grace given to 118 1,5,6 | Gentiles Called to the Church: Isaiah 2:2, Isaiah 11:1- 119 1,5,6 | Glory of the Triumphant Church: Isaiah, Chapters 26-27, 120 1,5,7 | Gentiles would be called to the Church (see the Index above for 121 1,5,7 | the divine services our Church with the same spiritual 122 1,5,7 | as syno-~nyms of the word Church. ~ In the New Testament 123 1,5,7 | the persecutors of ~the Church in its historical way; judgment 124 1,5,7 | renovation in the New Testament Church with complete ~renovation 125 1,Add,9| commissioned and ordained in the church precisely to preach the 126 1,Add,9| the idiom ~of the Early Church may seem to be, judged by 127 1,Add,9| uninterrupted tradition of the Church Uni-~versal. I would not 128 1,Add,9| the present warfare of the church in Asia, in Africa, in Europe 129 1,Add,9| The Tradition Lives.~ .The church is neither a museum of dead 130 1,Add,9| total experience of the ~church. In fact, it is an .existential 131 1,Add,9| abides in his body, the church. ~ ~A New Nestorianism.~ 132 1,Add,9| acquired. ~ In the early church the preaching was emphatically 133 1,Add,9| therefore the ministers of the church have to preach again doctrines 134 1,Add,9| The redis-~covery of the church is the most decisive aspect 135 1,Add,9| again realized that the ~church is not just a company of 136 1,Add,9| the reconstruction of the church. .In a time such as ~this. 137 1,Add,9| Christ,. Christ and the church . totus Christus, caput 138 1,Add,9| theology, the fa-~thers of the church, I find them more relevant 139 1,Add,0| dispensation and in ~the Christian Church. The Bible is by no means 140 1,Add,0| formal authority of the Church. ~And there was some very 141 1,Add,0| edification. The book and the Church cannot be separated. The 142 1,Add,0| Rom. 3:2), and it ~is the Church of the Word Incarnate that 143 1,Add,0| by the testimony of the Church. The canon of the Bible ~ 144 1,Add,0| established and authorized by the Church. ~One has, however, not 145 1,Add,0| Scriptures belonged to the Church. Heretics' appeal to them 146 1,Add,0| book as they stood. ~The Church has resisted all attempts 147 1,Add,0| oasis is erected by God. The Church is also an ~oasis still, 148 1,Add,0| They are to be read in the ~Church as a book of sacred history, 149 1,Add,0| true, perhaps, that in the Church and for us ~now the Old 150 1,Add,0| Word and the beginnings of church history, and the ~apocalyptic 151 1,Add,0| this historical witness the Church stands. Creeds have an historical 152 1,Add,0| Gospels are written within the church. In ~this sense they are 153 1,Add,0| they are the witness of the Church. They are records of church 154 1,Add,0| Church. They are records of church experience and faith. ~But 155 1,Add,0| Revelation is preserved in the Church. Therefore, the Church is 156 1,Add,0| the Church. Therefore, the Church is the proper and primary ~ 157 1,Add,0| the Spirit given to the Church, that is “the pillar and 158 1,Add,0| message is the core. And the Church is the divinely appointed 159 1,Add,0| message, simply because the Church belongs itself to the reve-~ 160 1,Add,0| belongs to the esse of the Church. The Church stands by its 161 1,Add,0| esse of the Church. The Church stands by its testimony ~ 162 1,Add,0| re-enacted in the life of the Church. Christ himself is ever ~ 163 1,Add,0| is ever ~present in the Church, as the Redeemer and head 164 1,Add,0| redeeming office ~in the Church. Salvation is not only announced 165 1,Add,0| announced or proclaimed in the Church. but precisely en-~acted. 166 1,Add,0| present and continued, in the ~Church and, through the Church, 167 1,Add,0| Church and, through the Church, in the world. The Church 168 1,Add,0| Church, in the world. The Church is itself an integral part 169 1,Add,0| Testament message. The Church itself is a part of revelation . 170 1,Add,0| within the experience of the Church ~is the New Testament truly 171 1,Add,0| Testament truly and fully alive. Church history is itself a story 172 1,Add,0| his human situation? ~ The Church has summarized the Scriptural 173 1,Add,0| utter importance that the Church has never thought of her 174 1,Add,0| for what purpose did the Church keep them always together? 175 1,Add,0| the Old Testament in the Church of Christ? ~ First of all, 176 1,Add,0| for instance, we, in the Church, identify the Suffering 177 1,Add,0| Christological meaning (the ~Church is included here, as the 178 1,Add,0| catechetical tradition of the Early Church, closely related to the 179 1,Add,0| was the tradition of the ~Church, and deviations were due 180 1,Add,0| individual scholars. The ~Church was, in full sobriety, historically 181 1,Add,0| the prophets spoke of the Church even more clearly than of ~ 182 1,Add,0| For there was already a Church. Israel, the chosen people, 183 1,Add,0| cove-~nant, was much more a Church than a nation, like other . 184 1,Add,0| was also (and primarily) a Church of God. The ~Law was given 185 1,Add,0| just in her capacity as a Church. It embraced the whole life 186 1,Add,0| traditional definition of the Church. The old dispensation has 187 1,Add,0| old covenant was in the Church of Christ (let us remember 188 1,Add,0| are of Hebrew origin: ~the Church is qahal and Christ means 189 1,Add,0| link holding to-~gether the Church and the Synagogue. For him 190 1,Add,0| Testament belonged now to the Church alone. Nobody could any 191 1,Add,0| Jesus the Christ. For the Church was the New ~Israel and 192 1,Add,0| interpreted as a book of the Church. The book on the Church, 193 1,Add,0| Church. The book on the Church, we should add. ~ The Law 194 1,Add,0| solely in its relation to the Church. ~Under the old dispensation 195 1,Add,0| the old dispensation the Church was limited to one nation. 196 1,Add,0| relation to the life of the Church, ~and set them as a Scriptural 197 1,Add,0| Israel was a pro-~visional Church, but she was not a pattern 198 1,Add,0| precisely the fact of the Church, the Body of ~Christ. But 199 1,Add,0| Bible is Cbrist and his Church, not nations or societies, 200 1,Add,0| of the new, i.e. of the Church Universal, not of any particular 201 1,Add,0| frame of the provisional Church has been done away by the 202 1,Add,0| genas . i.e. precisely the Church, the only people of God, 203 1,Add,0| The whole being of the ~Church is in a sense prophetical. 204 1,Add,0| present and future has in the Church of Christ another sense 205 1,Add,0| is now the history of the Church that is ~the Body of Christ. 206 1,Add,0| is already abiding in the Church. No complete system ~of 207 1,Add,0| is yet possible, for the Church is still on her pilgrimage. 208 1,Add,0| the Bible is kept ~by the Church as a book of history to 209 1,Add,1| tradition in the Ancient Church.~Archpriest George Florovsky ( 210 1,Add,1| authority of the Catholic Church had not moved me]. ~St. 211 1,Add,1| attitude of the Ancient ~Church in the matters of faith: . 212 1,Add,1| in his own time: the One Church, expanded and scattered 213 1,Add,1| being preserved in the Church from the Apostles through 214 1,Add,1| tradition of the ~Catholic Church.. This did not imply, however, 215 1,Add,1| the .common. mind of the Church, the mind of the Church 216 1,Add,1| Church, the mind of the Church Catholic: .That the trend 217 1,Add,1| question in the Ancient Church.~ At this point St. Vincent 218 1,Add,1| in the contest of the Church with the Arians, no less 219 1,Add,1| Scripture belonged to the Church, and it was only in the ~ 220 1,Add,1| and it was only in the ~Church, within the community of 221 1,Add,1| is . those outside of the Church, had no key to the mind 222 1,Add,1| it was the faith of the Church, rooted in the Apostolic 223 1,Add,1| it. Those outside of the Church were missing precisely this 224 1,Add,1| them. ~Scriptures were the Church.s possession. Emphatically 225 1,Add,1| of faith. in ~the Early Church. .When Christians spoke 226 1,Add,1| the Early History of the Church and the Ministry,. edited 227 1,Add,1| right interpretation. The Church was not an external authority, 228 1,Add,1| and Scripture in the Early Church (Assen, ~1954), pp. 145- 229 1,Add,1| was .deposited. ~in the Church and entrusted to her by 230 1,Add,1| first two centuries of the Church (London, 1953), pp. 207- 231 1,Add,1| the ~Holy Spirit in the Church. The whole conception of 232 1,Add,1| whole conception of the Church in St. Irenaeus was at once . 233 1,Add,1| tradition, entrusted to the Church as a new breath of life, 234 1,Add,1| presbyters. ~were in the Church accredited guardians and 235 1,Add,1| have that succession of the Church which is from the Apostles ~( 236 1,Add,1| Tradition was in the Early Church, first of all, an hermeneutical 237 1,Add,1| Tradi-~tion in the Early Church, Dr. Ellen Flessemanvan-Leer 238 1,Add,1| interpretation of Scripture is Church preaching, is tradition. [ 239 1,Add,1| appeal to the mind of the Church, to that .Faith. which had 240 1,Add,1| been maintained in the ~Church and .transmitted from fathers 241 1,Add,1| the general drift of the Church.s Faith as a Canon of interpretation. 242 1,Add,1| and faith of the Catholic Church from the very be-~ginning, 243 1,Add,1| preserved. Upon this the ~Church is founded. (ad Serap., 244 1,Add,1| faith] . of the Catholic Church. And this is ~the foundation ( 245 1,Add,1| foundation (themelion) of the Church . a sole and single foundation. 246 1,Add,1| appeal to the mind of the Church. It was assumed ~that the 247 1,Add,1| It was assumed ~that the Church had the knowledge and the 248 1,Add,1| Revelation. Accordingly, the Church had both the competence 249 1,Add,1| This did not imply that the Church was .above. the ~Scripture. 250 1,Add,1| the Heilsgeschichte. The Church had to ~preach Christ, and 251 1,Add,1| Tradition in the Ancient Church can be ~adequately understood 252 1,Add,1| Word was kept ~alive in the Church. It was reflected in her 253 1,Add,1| uniformly in every Catholic Church in all the ~world. Let the 254 1,Add,1| in the Tradition of the Church, and the argument from the 255 1,Add,1| century. The Worship of the Church was a solemn proclamation 256 1,Add,1| Scripture,. in the Worshipping Church. And Scripture was read 257 1,Add,1| was always believed in the Church ~and was a part of the Baptismal 258 1,Add,1| which are kept ~in the Church, we have some from the written 259 1,Add,1| unwritten mysteries of the Church,. says St. Basil (c. 66 260 1,Add,1| elite. The .elite. was the Church. In fact, .tradition. to 261 1,Add,1| liturgical practice of the Church. St. Basil is referring 262 1,Add,1| imposed and advocated in the Church. It was related to the institution 263 1,Add,1| Tradition in the Early~Church (London, 1962), pp. 27 ss]. ~ 264 1,Add,1| appeal to the faith of the Church, ~to her sensus catholicus, 265 1,Add,1| in the sacraments of the Church. Scripture must be read 266 1,Add,1| liturgical witness, of the Church was ~used by St. Augustine [ 267 1,Add,1| as quoted above]. ~ ~The Church as interpreter of Scripture.~ 268 1,Add,1| interpreter of Scripture.~ The Church had the authority to interpret 269 1,Add,1| unfailingly kept alive in the Church, as she ~was endowed with 270 1,Add,1| endowed with the Spirit. The Church was still teaching viva 271 1,Add,1| heard and preserved in the Church, by the ever abiding power 272 1,Add,1| Spirit. Apart ~from the Church and her regular Ministry, . 273 1,Add,1| elsewhere, outside of the Church, Catholic and Ap-~ostolic. 274 1,Add,1| assumption of the Ancient Church, from St. Irenaeus down 275 1,Add,1| formal at this point. In the Church the fullness of ~truth has 276 1,Add,1| deposite.. So was also the Church. ~Scripture and Church could 277 1,Add,1| the Church. ~Scripture and Church could not be separated, 278 1,Add,1| understanding, was only in the Church, as she was guided by the 279 1,Add,1| unity between Scripture and Church persistently. The task of 280 1,Add,1| tolic Tradition, kept in the Church. Origen insisted on catholic 281 1,Add,1| as it is ~offered in the Church: audiens in Ecclesia verhum 282 1,Add,1| tractari [hearing in the Church ~the Word of God presented 283 1,Add,1| danger to speak in the Church, lest by a perverse interpretation 284 1,Add,1| Origen. Out-~side of the Church there is no .Divine Gospel,. 285 1,Add,1| proclamation of the ~Word in the Church: andientibus utilis est [ 286 1,Add,1| authority of the Catholic Church had ~not moved me (c. epistolam 287 1,Add,1| to the authority of the Church, from which, and ~in which, 288 1,Add,1| subordinate. the Gospel to ~the Church. He only wanted to emphasize 289 1,Add,1| always in the con-~text of Church.s catholic preaching and 290 1,Add,1| cannot be separated from the Church. Only in this ~context it 291 1,Add,1| only possible within the Church. He opposed this teaching 292 1,Add,1| preaching auctoritas of the Church Catholic to the pretentious 293 1,Add,1| authority of ~the Catholic Church] was not an independent 294 1,Add,1| should not believe the ~Church, unless one was moved by 295 2,1,4 | nucleus of the early~Jerusalem church (Acts 2:1).~Feast of Trumpets ( 296 2,2,2 | bishops and priests, the Church always concerned itself 297 2,2,2 | untiring efforts of the Church, filled~and guided by the 298 2,2,2 | were often far from the Church and hence never understood~ 299 2,2,2 | always understood by the Church.~ 300 2,2,3 | especially works of the ancient~Church’s Fathers), give full support 301 2,2,4 | of Apostolic~origin. The Church designated these as apocryphal — 302 2,2,5 | Greek for the rest of the Church.~In writing his Gospel, 303 2,2,5 | the first Bishop of the church in Alexandria where St. 304 2,2,5 | whose house~served as a church for Antiochian Christians.~ 305 2,2,5 | considered as pillars of the Church in Jerusalem (Galatians 306 2,3,1 | within their communities. The Church always considered~the Apostles’ 307 2,3,2 | establishment of Christ’s Church. This Book narrates in~especial 308 2,3,2 | is why on~Easter night in church, before the Resurrection 309 2,3,2 | 67 AD. It is clear~from Church tradition, that after being 310 2,3,2 | picture of how Christ’s Church, having asserted itself 311 2,3,2 | the pastors of Christ’s Church, this~Book is important 312 2,3,2 | gives them an archetype of Church life and its management 313 2,3,2 | should be that serves the Church (Acts 20:18-35).~However, 314 2,3,3 | Even in~early times the Church called them Catholic or 315 2,3,3 | the lands,~(1:1) although Church tradition ascribes this 316 2,3,3 | Christ promised to build His Church, which even the gates of 317 2,3,3 | affirmation~of Christ’s Church by making a fiery speech 318 2,3,3 | been preserved only in the Church tradition records. It is~ 319 2,3,3 | Bishop of the Alexandrian Church. From here he~crossed over 320 2,3,3 | history of the Christian~Church, the Babylonian Church in 321 2,3,3 | Christian~Church, the Babylonian Church in Egypt is well known where, 322 2,3,3 | establishment of the Jerusalem Church and~together with them, 323 2,3,3 | Apostles’ writings and from Church tradition, it is known that 324 2,3,3 | call for the elders of the church, and let them~pray over 325 2,3,4 | blessed~community called Church, that was established by 326 2,3,4 | mankind’s sins and gave His Church the Comforter. In order 327 2,3,4 | mutual love. Outside the Church, there is nothing but the 328 2,3,4 | living a~blessed life of the Church, a Christian expands spiritually, 329 2,4,2 | because I persecuted the Church of God. But by the grace 330 2,4,2 | history of the~Christian Church as the “heathen’s Apostle.”~ 331 2,4,2 | persecuted the Christian Church, would Apostle Paul dare 332 2,4,3 | state of the Corinthian~church and about the favorable 333 2,4,3 | to be the bishop of the church in Crete. Later in~his letter 334 2,4,3 | as bishop~of the Ephesian church. Later the Apostle went 335 2,4,3 | consequence, split from the Church by establishing their own~ 336 2,4,3 | disturbances~into the life of any church, where Paul was absent. 337 2,4,3 | the common voice of the Church attributes fourteen~Epistles 338 2,4,3 | relative importance of the Church and its~people to whom they 339 2,4,5 | the purpose of Christ’s Church in Apostolic~times.~Apostle 340 2,5,1 | Fathers~and Teachers of the Church have always treated it with 341 2,5,2 | the Holy Fathers of the Church, he was the Apostle John, 342 2,5,2 | 1:9). It is known from Church history~that of all the 343 2,5,2 | Other, later Fathers of the Church are equally convinced in 344 2,5,2 | Apostolic guidance, the~Church of Smyrna.~ 345 2,5,3 | matter of the distant past. Church writers of the first~three 346 2,5,3 | foretell the fate of Christ's Church and of the whole world. 347 2,5,3 | The mission of Christ's Church~was to revive the world 348 2,5,3 | days after~Pentecost, the Church encountered hostility and 349 2,5,3 | regarding the fate of the~Church and the whole world. With 350 2,5,3 | bloody persecutions of the~Church continued to the year 313, 351 2,5,3 | intentions of the~enemies of the Church, whom it personifies in 352 2,5,3 | of the fight against the Church, the devil. This ancient 353 2,5,3 | directs them against the Church. However, the sufferings 354 2,5,3 | hostile forces against the Church~shall be delivered to judgment 355 2,5,3 | forthcoming battle of the~Church against the forces of evil; 356 2,5,3 | perdition of the enemies of the Church; and to show~the final triumph 357 2,5,4 | disrupt the community~and Church life. In addition, the imagery 358 2,5,4 | reality emanate against the Church of Rome, and so on. Finally, 359 2,5,4 | subsequent enemies of the Church.~The two witnesses for Christ 360 2,5,4 | angelic world, the triumphant Church in Heaven, and the persecuted~ 361 2,5,4 | Heaven, and the persecuted~Church on earth. Heading and directing 362 2,5,4 | increase tremendously, and the Church on earth will be~extremely 363 2,5,4 | of the fate of~Christ's Church from the time of the Apostles 364 2,5,4 | good and evil, between the Church and satan. This war, which 365 2,5,4 | concentrated~within the Church of Christ, represented here 366 2,5,4 | directs the war against the Church, is clearly shown for the 367 2,5,4 | decay. The war against the Church becomes extremely tense ( 368 2,5,4 | period of existence~of the Church is encompassed. Gog and 369 2,5,4 | history fought against the Church (Jerusalem). They are exterminated~ 370 2,5,4 | the Heavenly World, the Church (persecuted on earth), the 371 2,5,4 | Israel are symbols of the Church. The numbers also have a 372 2,5,4 | people and fruition of~the Church (the numbers derived from 373 2,5,4 | the persecution of the Church is described in the~framework 374 2,5,4 | in the fight against the Church and of teaching and~strengthening 375 2,5,4 | directs them against the Church and through them causes 376 2,5,5 | outlined the fate of Christ's Church, from the Apostolic period 377 2,5,5 | path of the New Testament Church, this “New~Israel,” which 378 2,5,5 | fate of the New Testament~Church. Thus, the three following 379 2,5,5 | days and the future of each~Church of Asia Minor, b) a new 380 2,5,5 | forthcoming fate of the Church. The combination of these 381 2,5,5 | in the diagram.~Note: The Church of Ephesus was the most 382 2,5,5 | light of Christianity in the Church of Ephesus gradually died. 383 2,5,5 | dangerous~temptation for the Church in the early centuries of 384 2,5,5 | and early Fathers of the~Church spoke out.~The ancient Gnostic 385 2,5,6 | and an eagle, taken by~the Church as symbols for the four 386 2,5,6 | subsequent existence of the Church,~which was the reason that 387 2,5,6 | 12, Rev. 14:1-5). In~the Church this feat was usually achieved 388 2,5,6 | of the Bible, showing the~Church triumphant in the Kingdom 389 2,5,7 | which man~receives in the Church. In the Creator's plan, 390 2,5,7 | Here is the history of the Church: the spiritual persecution 391 2,5,7 | times and the efforts of the Church to renew human society. 392 2,5,7 | society. However,~in the Church itself there arise heresies 393 2,5,7 | it~its persecutions. The Church weakens and retreats into 394 2,5,7 | of the hardships~of the Church and the fortification of 395 2,5,8 | 7:1-8). “Israel” is the Church of the New Testament here.~ 396 2,5,8 | of the~persecution of the Church. The measuring of the temple 397 2,5,8 | preservation of the children of the~Church from evil. The temple of 398 2,5,8 | different symbols of the Church of Christ. The basic thought 399 2,5,8 | these visions is~that the Church is Holy and is dear to God. 400 2,5,8 | and the beloved city [the Church]” by the regiments of~Gog 401 2,5,9 | The seven signs, the Church, and the kingdom of the 402 2,5,9 | two opposing camps — the Church and the kingdom of the beast. 403 2,5,9 | acquaint the reader with the Church, speaking about the marks, 404 2,5,9 | twelfth chapter shows the Church in all its Heavenly~glory 405 2,5,9 | be considered~to be the Church. The radiance of the sun 406 2,5,9 | blessed illumination of the Church through the gifts of the~ 407 2,5,9 | having become the Head of the Church. The “rapture” of the child 408 2,5,9 | that will persecute~the Church in subsequent visions of 409 2,5,9 | itself~against the Woman (the Church). Its weapons are the various 410 2,5,9 | prophets and all the deviant Church authorities.~As during the 411 2,5,9 | teachers undermined the Church with their~schisms and thus 412 2,5,9 | his~material gain. As the Church calls on people to have 413 2,5,9 | fortify their virtues,~the Church becomes an obstacle to them 414 2,5,9 | the Greek language (and in Church Slavonic), “A” is equal 415 2,5,0 | all of mankind, and the Church drops to the edge of exhaustion:~“ 416 2,5,1 | pseudo-religious or corrupt church power.~It is important to 417 2,5,2 | terrible war against the Church (Jerusalem), directing against 418 2,5,2 | final time. “I will build My~Church and the gates of Hades shall 419 2,5,2 | accelerating war against the Church throughout history ends 420 2,5,2 | participating in the fates of the Church and all of mankind (Rev. 421 2,5,3 | increased persecution of the~Church. Its aim was to strengthen 422 2,5,3 | Letters to the Seven Churches.~Church~Subject~Ephesus~Rev. 2:8- 423 2,5,3 | 1st~cent.)~Persecution of~Church by Roman~emperors. (2-4~ 424 2,5,3 | 12~cent. )~Flourishing of Church~art. Formalization of~religion. 425 2,5,3 | 20~cent.)~Pressure from~Church weakn~conversion of J~(20th 426 2,5,3 | 7-10)~Seven signs. The~Church and the~kingdom of the beast.~( 427 2,5,3 | false prophet. (18 -1~The Church triumphant~in Heaven.~Heavenly 428 2,5,3 | marriage of the Lamb a~the Church. The marria~Hymn of the 429 2,5,3 | saints (19:~10).~Persecuted Church on~earth.~The imminent~suffering 430 2,5,3 | dragon persecutes the~Woman- Church (12:3-4)~Plants seeds of 431 2,5,3 | suffering.~Growth of Heavenly~Church & increase of~calamities 432 2,5,3 | of the witnesses of~the church. The devil~directs theomachistic~ 433 2,5,3 | theomachistic~forces against the Church.~Kingdom of evil~increases,