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Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Traditional Room in the Centurions House atKome in which Paul was Imprisoned. A. D. 64: others that he was freed fromthe first Roman imprisonment, madenew missionary tours in the East, andpossibly also to the West as far asSpain, was taken prisoner to Rome a
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Portrait of Paul. (From a Roman Two-leaved Tablet not later than the Fourth Century.) PAU PAU second time, and suffered martyrdomA. D. 67 or 68. The hypothesis of asecond Roman imprisonment has somesupport in an ancient tradition (men-tioned by Eusebius), and explains cer-tain historical allusions in the PastoralEpistles, which cannot well be placedbefore the first imprisonment, but were iprobably composed between the firstand the second Roman imprisonments, jexcept Second Timothy, the last of all !Pauline Epistles. Ancient tradition is junanimous as to his martyrdom inRome, and the place of his execution bythe sword is still shown a little distancefrom the city. He himself alludes to hisapproaching martyrdom in those noblewords, 2 Tim. 4 : 6-8: I am alreadybeing offered, and the time of my depar-ture is at hand. I have fought the goodfight, I have finished the course, I havekept the faith: henceforth there is laidup for me the crown of righteousness,which the Lord, the righteous Judg

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