. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. with the great truths advocated by the preacher, and became a convert, and herselfand her whole house were baptized. Lydia only is mentioned by name, and it hasbeen surmised that she was a widow, and that her whole house consisted of herchildren and domestics.^ A woman thus became the first convert by the preaching ^ Acts xvi. 13. ^ See Stier, Reden der Apost. .54. It has beenixiinted out by J. B. Lightfoot (Philippians, p. 55) tliat the female sex of Philippia, and of allMacedonia, evidently on a much higherrelative position than in other countries. L
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. with the great truths advocated by the preacher, and became a convert, and herselfand her whole house were baptized. Lydia only is mentioned by name, and it hasbeen surmised that she was a widow, and that her whole house consisted of herchildren and domestics.^ A woman thus became the first convert by the preaching ^ Acts xvi. 13. ^ See Stier, Reden der Apost. .54. It has beenixiinted out by J. B. Lightfoot (Philippians, p. 55) tliat the female sex of Philippia, and of allMacedonia, evidently on a much higherrelative position than in other countries. Lineage 214 [ 51] ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. [Chap. XI. of Paul in Europe; and it is probable that Euodia and Syntyche, ?who figure in theEpistle to the Philippians, and had some disagreement which called for the Apostlesanimadversion, were also converted by the Apostle at or about the same Fig. 108.—Coin of Thyatira, the birthplace of Lydia. From the British lepa SvyeAijTos (Sacred Senate).—/Teu. ©uaTeipijiwv (of the Thyatirans). Thyatira was a city of Lydia, and the Lydian women had, from the time of Homerdownwards, been famous for their purple dyes: ^s S ore TLS T eXefpavTa yvvj] (polviKi fJ-irjvrj rji Kdeipa. Iliad, iv. 141. And as by Lydian or by Carian maidThe purple dye is on the ivory laid. And Claudian (thought by some to have been a Christian poet) thus describes theblushes of Proserjiine : Niveos infecit purpura vultus,Per liquidas suecensa genas, castasque pudorLsIlluxere faces; non sic decus ardet eburnumLydia Sidouio quod fcemina tinserit ostro. Claud. Eapt. Proserp. i. 270. Blushes oerspread the features of the maid. And modesty was in the downcast eye;Her purpling cheek was ivory overlaid By Lydian damsel with Sidonian dye. And Sir G. Wheler found, amongst the ruins of Thyatira, an inscription, Ol Bacpek, The Dyers. Lydia had pro
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