Agrippa : Marcus Vipsanius (63-12 BC) adoptive son of Julius Caesar & companion of Octavian (later Augustus Caesar). In the struggle for power, after Caesar was murdered in 44 BC, he became Octavian’s key commander & helped him defeat Mark Antony at Actium in 31 BC. After Octavian took over as Emperor Augustus, Agrippa became his chief deputy & suppressed rebellions, founded colonies, & administered various parts of the Roman Empire.
... gone—I am willing to talk about Agrippa or anything you like—I don't know Agrippa, but I know about him. He was a man grave, stern, sombre, full of retained force, a great lover of Augustus, but yet they did not always get on very well together from want of sufficient intellectual comprehension of each other—Horace—No—it was a private friendship—To found the empire? Agrippa, Maecenas,—at first Antony,... them apart. They were complementary to each other, but could not understand each other. Of course I don't know that you were Antony—I only try to interpret the dream—Yes—he has much of the prana of Agrippa, only it is now illumined & purified & there is the effect of other lives—Whose? Yes, that is why I said you might be Antony—No, you have progressed much—If so, she has much altered—Why not? One can ...
... although the latter is made out as if Paul himself were relating his experience to the Jews of Jerusalem. 11 The third account is again put into Paul's own mouth, now as told to King Agrippa in Caesarea. Here Jesus, not Ananias, sends Paul to the Pagans to open their eyes (26:17-18). 12 So a contradiction is introduced in Acts itself between two accounts which are both ascribed to Paul... "found in Paul's discourses". In the discourses we find nothing to correspond to the story of Jesus appearing to Paul on the road to Damascus nor anything answering to the statement: "After that, King Agrippa, I could not disobey the heavenly vision. On the contrary I started preaching first to Page 101 the people of Damascus, then to those of Jerusalem and all the countryside of Judaea ...
... to a possibly first-century historian named Thallus for the report. But this Thallus is a very elusive and uncertain quantity. A Thallus seems to be mentioned by Josephus as a money-lender to Herod Agrippa in A.D. 35: there is not even a hint that this financier was also a historian. So it is dangerous to build upon him. And there is no need to do so. For, the Gospels contain, as is now admitted by all ...
... to the Pagans" (1:15-16). 9 The fact of the hidden Christ in Paul is suggested also by the third of the three accounts in Acts of Paul's conversion. In the course of his speech to King Agrippa, Paul is made to recount: "...I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew, 'Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you, kicking like this against the goad' "(26:14). 10 The Jerusalem Bible 11 ...
... mentioned but bearing the same name: "(1) One of the three disciples who were with Jesus on the mount of transfiguration (Mark 9:2-9). The brother of John, a son of Zebedee, he was later killed by Herod Agrippa I (Acts 12:1-2). (2) Another disciple, the son of Alpheus, of whom nothing more is known (Mark 4:18). (3) The brother of Jesus who apparently became an apostle after a special resurrection appearance ...
... variety of opinions, the question should repeatedly arise as to whether in all this welter of names and philosophemes there is any hard truth or whether all is pure error." 24 Did not in ancient times Agrippa and Sextus Empiricus already make use of the phenomenon of tropos apo tes diaphonias 25 to support their denial of the possibility of any true knowledge at all? But on a closer scrutiny of ...
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