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This classic work is a comprehensive study on the life of Christ, including every reference to His life and teaching. A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels also includes extensive entries on the four Gospels. Biblical expert and Editor James Hastings compiled over nineteen hundred pages of notes from over one hundred international contributors and scholars. Although this is a massive and...

reference to it between the NT and that Father; and with this fact we may compare the silence of the earlier writers about Easter; but, as Duchesne remarks (Orig. viii. § 4), Pentecost is implied rather than explicitly mentioned in early Christian writings. .—The fortieth day after Easter was not, so far as we know, observed as a commemoration of our Lord’s going up to heaven until at least the middle of the 4th century. In the Edessene Canons (can. 9) the Ascension is observed with
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