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34. Prisca, Aquila, Andronicus and Junia
Four Fellow Labourers And Relatives Of Paul, Namely, Prisca, Aquila, Andronicus, And Junia, Martyred At Rome, Under Nero, About A.D. 70 The apostle Paul, at the conclusion of his epistle to the church of God at Rome, very lovingly saluting different saints residing there, mentions, among others, two persons who had laid down their own necks for his life; also…
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33. Epaphras, Paul’s Friend
Epaphras, A Fellow Prisoner Of Paul, Slain Under Nero, About A.D. 70 Epaphras was a faithful minister of Jesus Christ for the church at Colosse, which, while in bonds at Rome, he saluted by the hand of Paul, as appears from the epistle Paul wrote from his prison at Rome to the Colossians, in which, among other things, he says:…
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32. Aristarchus, Paul’s Friend
The Martyrdom Of Some Of Paul’s Friends And Brethren Who Were Imprisoned With Him Shortly After He Was Offered Up; Besides Others Who Were Slain Afterwards. It is related that shortly after the death of the Apostle Paul, his brethren and fellow prisoners, whom he mentions in the epistles which he wrote from his prison, namely, Aristarchus, Epaphras, Aquila, Prisca,…
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31. The Apostle Paul
The Apostle Paul Beheaded in Rome on Nero’s Orders, A.D. 69 Paul, the Apostle of Christ, Sorely Persecuted, and Finally Beheaded, at Rome, Under the Emperor Nero, A.D. 69 Saul, afterwards called Paul, was of Jewish descent, a Hebrew of the tribe of Benjamin; but, as to who his father and mother were, we find in Holy Writ no record.…
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30. The Apostle Peter
The Apostle Peter being crucified upside down in Rome on orders of Nero, AD 69 Simon Peter, the Holy Apostles, Crucified with His Head Downward, Under Emperor Nero, A.D. 69 Simon Jona, afterwards called Cephas in Syriac, but Petros or Petrus in Greek, was the brother of Andrew, a native of Bethsaida in Galilee, and a fisherman by occupation. He…
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29. Nero’s Cruelties Against the Christians
Of the Unheard of Cruelties Nero Practiced in Slaying the Pious Christians Touching the manner in which the Christians were tortured and killed at the time of Nero, A. Mellinus gives the following account from Tacitus and other Roman writers: namely, that four extremely cruel and unnatural kinds of torture were employed against the Christians: Firstly, that they dressed them…
