Youth's Magazine,  8 (1835), 247.

Earthquake at Apamea and Philippi

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Genre:

Extract, Miscellaneous

Publications extracted:

Arundell 1834

Subjects:

Vulcanology, Miracle, Natural Law


    The writer identifies the earthquake related in Acts 16. 26 with an earthquake recorded at Apamea in the same year, observing: 'As God often works miracles, even by natural causes, so the prison doors, being opened to Paul by the earthquake, would still be the effect of Divine agency'.



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