... spring 1642. Protestant settlers were evicted from their lands, their farms were burned, their cattle stolen, and many settlers were killed. Key strongholds were captured by the insurgents, and gruesome reports of massacres and atrocities provoked fears of an international conspiracy across England and Scotland. Stories spread of terrible violence against men, women, and children who were murdered, drowned, and burned ... ...

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... (389), which uses both the Latin translation and the Hebrew version as its basis. In addition, Jerome published Quaestiones hebraicae in Genesim (Hebrew Questions; 390), short interpretive essays on the book of Genesis; in these essays, Jerome considers rabbinical interpretations in order to provide justification for his corrections to the Old Latin Bible. His exegetical work also includes commentaries on the ... (finished 406) and on the four major prophets (begun 407, unfinished); these works are collected in Opus Prophetale. Jerome contributed several treatises to the recording of ch...

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... take afore you the cross of Christ and in your hearts his faith the restitution of the church the suppression of these heretics by all the holy contents of this book. The rebels used an image of the five wounds of Christ on banners and flags to enforce once again the supposedly only religious purpose they had for revolt, and many ... ...

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