What was one principal object in calling this council?
Answer
"The question relating to the observance of Easter, which was agitated in the time of Anicetus and
Polycarp, and afterward in that of Victor, was still undecided. It was one of the principal reasons for
convoking the Council of Nice, being the most important subject to be considered after the Arian
controversy."
"It appears that the churches of Syria and Mesopotamia continued to follow the, custom of the
Jews, and celebrated Easter on the fourteenth day of the moon, whether falling on Sunday or not. All the
other churches observed that solemnity on Sunday only, namely; those of Rome, Italy, Africa, Lydia,
Egypt, Spain, Gaul, and Britain; and all Greece, Asia, and Pontus." - Boyle's 'Historical View of the
Council of Nice," page 23, edition 1836.
5. What further statement of Christ seems to lay the responsibility for the origin of sin upon Satan and his angels?
In what other way is God's love sometimes shown?
What description of the Apostle Paul's experience is in harmony with this?
With what words do the Scriptures conclude the record of Christ's early life?
To what indignities did Herod subject the Saviour?
What was Christ's reply?
12. Because of Christ's healing a woman of an infirmity on the Sabbath, what did the ruler of a certain synagogue say?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle