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  Eureka -- Vol 1 -- Chap 1 -- Sec 3: 6. Antipas
Antipas is styled "my faithful witness." Hence the name is identical with him, or them, who held fast the name and denied not the faith of Christ, whether in Pergamos or elsewhere, in the midst of persecution.
Antipas however, though put to death, hath been resuscitated and they now "stand upon their feet," and their enemies are afraid of them.
The author of this exposition is an Antipas; and would rather stand alone, faithfully adherent to the name and faith of the Spirit, than redolent of the odors of sanctity burned to his honor by all the clergy and pietists of "Christendom".
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 Herod Antipas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Herod Antipas (born 20 BC) was an ancient leader (Tetrarch) of Galilee and Peraea.
A son of Herod the Great and Malthace, who was from Samaria, Herod Antipas became Tetrarch in 4 BC upon the death of his father.
Herod Antipas was exiled by the Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Caligula to Lugdunum (modern Lyons), in Gaul in AD 39 according to Josephus (Antiquities) who says, however, in the Jewish Wars (II, ix, 6) "So Herod died in Spain whither his wife had followed him".
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 Herod Antipas
Antipas ruled Galilee and Perea under their Roman emperor, although he kept up a pretense of independence.
Antipas was a son of Herod the Great who was too young when his father died to excite his jealousy and therefore survived him.
Antipas married Herodias and his Arab wife fled to her father's capital city, Petra.
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 Antipas
Herod (Antipas) and Philip were each taking control of the tetrarchy he had received.
The fact that Antipas named Beth Haram "Julias" indicates that it was dedicated early in the reign of her son, Tiberius, whom she dominated.
Since the tetrarch Herod (Antipas) was advancing as a great friend of Tiberius, he had a city, named Tiberias after him, constructed, locating it in one of the best places in Galilee on Lake Gennesareth.
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 In Herod's Footsteps
Antipas is remembered as an outstanding ruler who brought peace and prosperity to his land for more than 40 years.
Antipas tried to avoid offending his Jewish subjects and their commitment to the Torah?for example, by refusing to mint coins with images on them.
Herod Antipas' greatest project was the city of Tiberias on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
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 Serbian Orthodox Church - The Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum in Asia
The inhabitants of this town dwelt in the darkness of idolatry and in the depths of impurity: they were slaves to their passions, slanderers, bullies, incestuous; in brief, slaves of Satan.
In terror of Antipas as of fire, the demons appeared to the pagan priests in their dreams and told them how greatly they were in fear of him, and how this fear was driving them from the city.
Antipas prayed for his flock and for the whole world until his soul parted from his exhausted body and went to join the angels in the Kingdom of Christ.
www.serbianorthodoxchurch.net /cgi-bin/saints.cgi?view=476268916623   (344 words)

  
 Trafford Publishing: The Voice From The Jordan
The latter's untimely death by murder while a prisoner of Antipas was the result of a lowly intrigue and criminal manipulations by Herod's wife Herodias, who had a grudge against the Baptist for his publicly berating her on having illegally married his brother's wife.
Antipas had a lustful desire for Salome; this was well-known to the cunning Herodias, who took advantage of the celebration of Herod's birthday party to conceive a plot that would lead to the execution of the Baptist.
Ever since the Baptist's beheading, a superstitious Antipas, who had always felt an inexplicable fear for what he considered as supernatural powers of the Baptist, was haunted by terrifying night visions of a blood-dripping severed head staring directly at his eyes.
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 Herod the great, herod antipas, herod agrippa and herodias!
Antipas threw John the Baptist in jail and then later by the wishes of Salome the daughter of Herodias by another marriage he had John beheaded.
Herodias wife of Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee from 4 B.C. to 39 A.D. also the granddaughter of Herod the Great and daughter of Aristobulus son of Herod the Great was a ruthless princess whose incestuous relationships and marriages shocked the Jewish people and brought about the ruin of her husbands.
Grudgingly Herod Antipas was obligated to obey her desires and brought the head of John to her on a platter.
mt.essortment.com /herodthegreat_rnnp.htm   (1200 words)

  
 HEROD ANTIPAS - LoveToKnow Article on HEROD ANTIPAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Like his father, Antipas had a turn for architecture: he rebuilt and fortified the town of Sepphoris in Galilee; he also fortified Betharamptha in Peraea, and called it Julias after the wife of the emperor.
Above all he founded the important town of Tiberias on the west shore of the Sea of Galilee, with institutions of a distinctly Greek character.
Antipas was deprived of his dominions and banished to Lyons, Herodias voluntarily sharing his exile.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HEROD_ANTIPAS.htm   (343 words)

  
 Herod Antipas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Herod Antipas (born 20 BC) was an ancient leader ((Click link for more info and facts about Tetrarch) Tetrarch) of (An area of northern Israel; formerly the northern part of Palestine and the ancient kingdom of Israel; the scene of Jesus's ministry) Galilee and Peraea.
His first task was to restore order caused by the rebellion of the Jewish Feast of Pentecost (((Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments) Shavuot) in that year.
The city was named to honor his patron, Emperor (Son-in-law of Augustus who became a suspicious tyrannical Emperor of Rome after a brilliant military career (42 BC to AD 37)) Tiberius.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/herod_antipas.htm   (369 words)

  
 J. W. McGarvey's The Fourfold Gospel [LXII. Herod Antipas].
When Herod Antipas went to Rome about the affairs of his tetrarchy, he became the guest of his brother Herod Philip I., and repaid the hospitality which he received by carrying off the wife of his host.] 18 For John said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
The lawful wife of Antipas (the daughter of Aretas, king or emir of Arabia) was still living; 3.
Antipas and Herodias, being nephew and niece, were related to each other within the forbidden degrees of consanguinity.] 19 And Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him; but she could not: 20 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe.
www.biblestudyguide.org /comment/mcgarvey/four-fold-gospel/FFG062.HTM   (1497 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Antipas was a son of Herod the Great, he had 13 brothers and nine stepmothers.
Antipas was responsible for the death of John the baptist and was also the Herod to whom Jesus was sent by Pontius Pilate for examination at the time of his crucifixion.
Antipas fled to Rome to secure his kingdom and throne but when he got there, he found that the friends of his cousin Herod Agrippa opposed him and accused him of treason.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Herod
Antipas was a son of Herod the Great, after whose death he became ruler of Galilee.
The most celebrated city built by Antipas was Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Antipas had come to Jerusalem for the Pasch, and he is named with Pilate as a persecutor of Christ (Acts 4:27).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07289c.htm   (2969 words)

  
 Herod Antipas
The appointment was given him by Tiberius, and Antipas later honored Tiberius by founding the city of that name near the Sea of Galilee.
Antipas was banished to Lyons, in Gaul, and Galilee given to Agrippa.
Antipas had married the daughter of Aretas IV, King of the Nabataeans, as a political alliance.
www.ancientroute.com /people/Antipas.htm   (210 words)

  
 Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When his father died, Herod Antipas was given the title of "tetrarch," and he ruled under the Romans over the Galilean and Perean parts of his father's kingdom.
Herod Antipas was the ablest of his father's several sons and, like his father, was a builder.
Jesus referred to Herod Antipas as "that fox." Foxes were known in those days for their destructiveness, not for their craftiness.
www.historicjesus.com /glossary/herodsantipas.html   (243 words)

  
 The Lives of the Herod Family Intertwine with the Life of Jesus and the Lives of His Apostles
Antipas was also the fox that the Pharisees warned Jesus about in Luke 13: 31.
Antipas presided over Jesus' trial in Luke 23, and with Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator, determined Jesus' death sentence on Good Friday.
John and Peter refer to the decision of Antipas and Pontius Pilate to execute Jesus in Acts 4: 27.
www.sundayschoollessons.com /herod.htm   (832 words)

  
 Matthew 14   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Antipas believes that John has returned from the dead in the temporary sense exhibited in some biblical resuscitations (1 Kings 17:21-22; 2 Kings 4:34-36), not the final resurrection, which Jewish people generally understood as a corporate event (Dan 12:2).
Nearly all Jews would have found Herod's lust disgusting: because the girl was the daughter of a woman with whom Antipas was sleeping, desire for her constituted incest (compare Amos 2:7).
Antipas had wronged his brother Philip by taking the man's wife; this was an act of adultery in God's sight (5:31-32) and also qualified as incest under the Mosaic law (Lev 20:21).
www.faithcycleministry.org /BibleStudies/Matthew/Matthew14.html   (3494 words)

  
 Antipas - Another Jesus Revolution?
Stevan Shearer of Antipas opens his appeal for another Jesus Revolution with a quote from the radical, bawdry folk-singer, Pete Seeger, who had been a member of the Communist Party from 1942 to 1950 and was in the forefront of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the '60s.
According to Antipas' mirror site, The Institute for the Study of Religion in Politics (ISRP), editor Stevan Shearer was an early leader of the Jesus Movement in the 1960s in Northern California where he was also involved in counter-intelligence.
Antipas' publication Religion in Politics, edited by Stevan Shearer, reveals that the CIA contracted with Eli Lilly to produce the hallucinogenic drugs which in turn produced a generation of drug-addicted social and spiritual drop-outs:
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 Salome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In Christian mythology, Salome was the daughter of Herodias and stepdaughter of Herod Antipas, ruler of Galilee in Palestine.
The saint had condemned the marriage of Herodias and Herod Antipas, as Herodias was the divorced wife of Antipas's half brother Philip.
This new and more familiar version of Salome depicts her as a seductress of her stepfather and a murderer of a saint, thereby becoming a symbol of the erotic and dangerous woman, the femme fatale.
www.victorianweb.org /gender/salome.html   (338 words)

  
 Antipas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There's also an interesting subtext present in "Antipas." The politician John Saxum has clearly had a contentious family life even before Lucy showed up to wreak havoc, as his wife rightly feels that he doesn't pay enough attention to his daughter.
After Frank's experiences with the "good" spiritual forces of "Borrowed Time" and "The Sound of Snow," I suppose "Antipas" could be read as Lucy striking back by reminding him of the ugliness and violence of which she is capable and by threatening Jordan's safety at the end.
"Antipas" serves up what is easily the biggest dose of cold-blooded terror this season, and maybe the biggest since Ms.
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 Orthodox Icon of Hieromartyr St. Antipas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Antipas was mentioned in the Book of Revelation (2:13): "Antipas My faithful martyr, who was slain among you where Satan dwelleth." That is, the city of Pergamum, where those who killed Christians were accounted as doing a civic service.
So they seized Antipas and tortured him to force him to deny Christ and worship their idols.
He said to them: "When your so-called gods and lords of the universe are afraid of me, a mortal man, and have to flee the city, why do you not learn from this that your faith is in vain?" This only made them more irrationally angry.
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 Palestine under the Rule of the Herods
Antipas was self-indulgent and ambitious, and eventually fell out of favor with Rome and was also banished.
In the New Testament, all of these rulers are generally referred to as Herod, although the one most mentioned in the Gospels was Herod Antipas since he controlled Galilee and Perea during most of the lifetime of Jesus.
After Antipas was banished, he was given control of his territory as well.
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 Herod Agrippa I
Herod was a favorite at the Roman court, he was given the title of king in 37, and made to rule over parts of southern Syria.
Antipas, who was banished, and of Samaria and
What has been said of Herod Agrippa is equally true of Antipas, he had been the meanest thing the world had ever seen - a courtier of the early empire.
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 Herodias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Later Herod Antipas, brother of Herod Philip, fell in love with her, rejecting his own wife and commanding his brother to give Herodias to him.
As John the Baptist had allegedly preached condemning this union, she got, by means of her daughter Salomé, the order for John's beheading from Herod Antipas.
There is another legendary version saying that John the Baptist refused sexual propositions from Herodias and Salome, and that contributed to his death.
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 StreetSwing's Dance History Archives - Salome Dance Page - Main1
(son of Zacharias and Elisabeth) was publicly disgracing Herodias (Wife of Herod Phillip, Antipa's half Brother) for incest and adultery.
Antipas would not hear of it and almost teased her with him.
On Antipas birthday, Salomé danced before Herod and to fulfill his promise to Salomé (Matt.
www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3salome.htm   (621 words)

  
 New Covenant Church of God, Articles & Sermons: 278. Antipas: He Died at Satan's Throne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This reassurance along with Antipas' faithful stance were to fortify the spirit of the venerable Polycarp, who would defy the idolatrous powers of Rome and die the martyr's death.
While Antipas was dying under the Sword of Rome, or through some other vicious design, a whole church assembly not far from Pergamum was undergouing the pangs of a very infamous, ungratifying death.
For Antipas and his peers in martyrdom, death is not the sad experience of the sailor, whose vessel is adrift.
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 Jewish History - Herod's Successors
The realm of Antipas was Galilee and Perea: the Jordan dividing the two districts.
The realm of Antipas, often mentioned in the New Testament, was a little nearer.
It is said he was finally put to death at the wish of a dancer, Salome, but really to please her mother, Herodias, a wanton woman, to marry whom Antipas had divorced his wife, the daughter of an Arabian king.
www.oldandsold.com /articles26/jewish-history-13.shtml   (896 words)

  
 OUTLINE: MATTHEW CHAPTER 1
Herod Antipas was the son of Herod the Great, and along with three other sons of Herod the Great, he ruled as a ‘tetrarch’ (ruler of a fourth part) over Palestine and the Jews
Herod Antipas had previously been married to the daughter of King Aretus who ruled Nabatean Arabia, and their marriage had been completed in order to enact a peaceful alliance between the two nations.
Herod Antipas seemed to be intrigued by the preaching of John the Baptist, and of higher thoughts of divine fellowship and forgiveness, and for awhile he would allow John to preach to him, and in fact, he enjoyed listening to him preach (Mark 6:20).
www.calvarychapel.com /greenbay/matthew/Matt14P1.htm   (2316 words)

  
 MEN OF THE BIBLE - HEROD ANTIPAS
His father, Herod the Great, had been completely heartless when he ordered the cold-blooded killing of every baby boy around Bethlehem in an attempt to eliminate the newborn king of the Jews.
Their ministries were causing an unprecedented sensation throughout the land but Herod Antipas was not as ruthless as his father.
Yet Herod Antipas had a particular disdain for John.
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