Virgin Martyr, The
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Virgin Martyr, The, a tragedy by
Massinger and
Dekker, printed 1622. It is based on the story of St
Dorothea, who, with her lover Antoninus, is martyred for her faith during the reign of Diocletian, after converting the daughters of the zealous persecutor Theophilus: Theophilus is also converted in the last act, and is himself tortured to death. The same story has been treated in poems by
Swinburne and G. M.
Hopkins.
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Sunday School Lesson
Newspaper article from: Sun Reporter, The; 11/17/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...and Priscilla with him. He shaved his head while he was in Cenchrea, and took a vow before the Lord. According to the (Nelson...to get to Jerusalem in time to make this vow." It was from Cenchrea that Paul and his traveling companions sailed again headed...
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God calls women
Newspaper article from: The Press; 4/14/2008; 334 words
; ...descriptive of the deeply patriarchal society at the time. Otherwise, Paul would not have commended Phoebe, a deacon of the Cenchrea church, Priscilla, a co- leader of a house church, and Junia, a woman outstanding among the Apostles (Romans 16). At...
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Wives of deacons find ways to minister. (Phoebe Ministries in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN)(Ministries)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 1/23/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...group's name from Romans 16, wherein St. Paul commends to the community "our sister Phoebe, a deaconess of the church at Cenchrea ... help her with anything she needs" (the word in Greek is diakonos, the same term used for male deacons -- Paul indicates...
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Pictorial Library of Bible Lands
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Tarsus, Thyatira, Troas and Apollo Smintheurn, Troy. CD 9 Greece: Amphipolis, Argos, Athens, Berea and Vergina, Cenchrea, Corinth, Corinth area, Delphi, Dion, Dodona, Epidaurus, Isthmia, Meteora, Mt Olympus, Mycenae, Neapolis, Nicopolis...
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SPIRITUAL OUTLOOK; Thanksgiving: the basic debt we owe God
Newspaper article from: Indianapolis Recorder; 11/28/2003; ; 406 words
; ...imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." (Emphasis added) Romans was written by Paul and delivered by a woman from Cenchrea named Phoebe. Romans is one of Paul's well thought out letters. It contains, by some theological giants, the "magna...
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 "Herald & Review (Decatur, IL)")
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Women in Ministry: Conference planned for female clergy, Christian education workers to join together in their calling.
Newspaper article from: Herald & Review (Decatur, IL); 1/27/2007; 700+ words
; ...Several women ministers around Decatur look at their predecessors in the Bible: Phoebe, the deaconess of the church of Cenchrea, Priscilla and her husband Aquila, co-pastors of the church of Ephesus, and Euodia and Syntyche, two women who labored...
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 "Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)")
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The truth about Corinth ?(Features)
Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England); 8/21/2007; 622 words
; ...to the church at Corinth and a letter to the church in Rome. It was where he met Aquila and Priscilla as well as Phoebe of Cenchrea - the seaport of Corinth. It was also the place that Rev Kit Widdows and his wife Gillian recently visited as they followed...
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Women have been spreading the word throughout time
Newspaper article from: Sun, The: Lisle (IL); 2/6/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...was a gentile. She is mentioned only once in the Bible: "I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea. I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints and to give her any help she may need from you. For she...
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READING ROMANS ANEW.
Magazine article from: Sojourners; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...letter from an apostle named Paul. It is a long letter, and it has been carded nearly 1,000 miles by sea and land from Cenchrea, the port city of Corinth, by a deacon named Phoebe, one of Paul's co-workers (Romans 16:1-2). Phoebe, or a...
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Cenchrea
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cenchrea or Cenchreae , port of ancient Greece, on the Saronic Gulf, ESE of Corinth. It is mentioned in the New Testament.
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Phebe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Phebe or Phoebe , in the New Testament, deaconess at Cenchrea.
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