apostolic age
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of apostolic age
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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As best we can tell, local churches in the Roman world of the apostolic age were essentially small communes, self-sustaining but also able to share resources with one another when need dictated.
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2017
How does this comport with the assumption that the existence of the human Jesus was never doubted in the apostolic age?
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.
Discrimination.—Throughout the apostolic age Christians were conscious of being carried forward in a great movement, the origin and motive-power of which they regarded as supernatural.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
Such was the catholicism of the apostolic age.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
De Rossi unhesitatingly says that he believes this painting of our Blessed Lady to belong almost to the apostolic age.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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