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The "next day" is the fourth of the days tracked by John in his opening chapter. [1] Irish Archbishop John McEvilly writes that "it would appear that Jesus found Philip either on the way or in Galilee itself. [2] The Contemporary English Version offers a translation of this verse as "The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee.
In 1864, pressure mounted for both sides to seek a peace settlement to end the long and devastating Civil War. [1] Several people had sought to broker a North–South peace treaty in 1864. Francis Preston Blair , a personal friend of both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, had unsuccessfully encouraged Lincoln to make a diplomatic visit to ...
[1] The end of the book is dedicated to means of attaining peace. The author begins by criticizing the popular maxim "to preserve peace, it is necessary to be prepared for war" stating that the possession of a military force can provoke envy and hostility from others, rather than serving as a deterrent. [1]
The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response is a 1983 pastoral letter of the American Catholic bishops addressing the issue of war and peace in a nuclear age. It reviewed the Catholic Church's teachings about peace and war, reaffirmed the just war theory as the main principles for evaluating the use of military force, acknowledged the legitimacy of nonviolence as an alternative ...
He let Moscow use his territory to invade Ukraine in 2022 and even hosts some of Russia's tactical nuclear weapons, but he still campaigned with the slogan, "peace and security," arguing he has ...
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Set during the Napoleonic Wars , the work comprises both a fictional narrative and chapters in which Tolstoy discusses history and philosophy.
The Peace of Paris of 1783 was the set of treaties that ended the American Revolutionary War.On 3 September 1783, representatives of King George III of Great Britain signed a treaty in Paris with representatives of the United States of America—commonly known as the Treaty of Paris (1783)—and two treaties at Versailles with representatives of King Louis XVI of France and King Charles III of ...
Count Nikolai Ilyich Rostov (Russian: Николай Ильич Ростов) is a character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace. Count Nikolai is the brother of Vera Rostova, Natasha Rostova and Petya Rostov. At the start of the novel, Nikolai is aged 20 and a university student.