. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. an extensive trade and is a place of conse-quence (fig. 115). The walls are five miles round, and, as you sail up the Bay of Thermae,have a very striking ajypearance, being whitewashed and jjainted, and rising up thehill in a theatrical form (fig. 116). Thessalonica, from its commercial character, had * Thessalonica libera; conditionisN. H. iv. 17. ^^ rj vvv roiv {Wtov svavbpfl. lib. vii. c. 7. ^ Tt §€, al irfirraKoaia Plin. Strabo, ^9Ao-iaj TToXeiy; o^X* ^iX^ <^povpas eva npotrKwovuiv hy^^iova Kal rai iina- TiKas pd^Sovs; Jos. Bell. ii. IG, 4;
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. an extensive trade and is a place of conse-quence (fig. 115). The walls are five miles round, and, as you sail up the Bay of Thermae,have a very striking ajypearance, being whitewashed and jjainted, and rising up thehill in a theatrical form (fig. 116). Thessalonica, from its commercial character, had * Thessalonica libera; conditionisN. H. iv. 17. ^^ rj vvv roiv {Wtov svavbpfl. lib. vii. c. 7. ^ Tt §€, al irfirraKoaia Plin. Strabo, ^9Ao-iaj TToXeiy; o^X* ^iX^ <^povpas eva npotrKwovuiv hy^^iova Kal rai iina- TiKas pd^Sovs; Jos. Bell. ii. IG, 4; and see FastiSaori, p. 80, No. 666. ?- (im^ai- 1 Thess. i. 8. » 1 Thess. i. 8. Chap. XI.] ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. [ 51] always a large proportion of Jews, and what is remarkable is, that one-half of thepopulation is said at the present day to be of the Israelitish race. Paul, Silas, and Timothy having arrived at Thessalonica, provided themselveswith a lodging at the house of a Jew, one Jesus, who had taken the Gentile name. Fig. Ian iif Thasalunica. J-rum Admiralty chart. of Jason,^ to whom, perhaps, they had brought letters of introduction from thedisciples at Philippi. Pauls next step was to obtain employment for himself as atentmaker, and for this purpose he might either hire himself to some artisan in that
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