The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ace even among the spurious writings. of four townships or quarters, each surroundedby a separate wall, and all four by a common first was built by Seleucus Nicator, who peo-pled it with inhabitants from Antigonia; the sec-ond by the settlers belonging to the first quarter;the third by Seleucus Callinicus; and the fourthby Antiochus Epiphanes (Strabo, xvi :2; iii:354).It was the
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ace even among the spurious writings. of four townships or quarters, each surroundedby a separate wall, and all four by a common first was built by Seleucus Nicator, who peo-pled it with inhabitants from Antigonia; the sec-ond by the settlers belonging to the first quarter;the third by Seleucus Callinicus; and the fourthby Antiochus Epiphanes (Strabo, xvi :2; iii:354).It was the metropolis of Syria (Antiochiam, Syriacaput. Tac. Hist. ii:/9), the residence of the Sy-rian kings (the Seleucidae) (iMacc. ui:37; vii:2),and afterwards became the capital of the Romanprovinces in Asia. It ranked third, after Romeand Alexandria, among the cities of the empire(Joseph., De iii:2, sec. 41, and was littleinferior in size and splendor to the latter, or toSeleucia (Strabo, xvi;2; vol. iii, p, 355, ). In the immediate neighborhood in a luxuriantgrove was the suburb Daphne, with its cel-ebrated sanctuary of Apollo (2 Mace. iv:33);whence the city was sometimes called Antioch. Antioch. (See the articles on the several epistles and theRevelation.) W. \y. ANTI-LIBANUS (antMiba-nus). See Leb-anon. ANTIOCH (anti-ok), (, an-tee-okh,i-a). Two pi,ices of this name are mentioned inthe New Testament. (1) In Syria. A city on the banks of theOrontes, 300 miles north of Jerusalem, and about30 from the Mediterranean. It was situated inthe province of Seleucis, called Tetrapolis (Terpa-ttoXis), from containing the four cities, Anti-och, Seleucia, Apamea, and Laodicea; of whichthe first was named after Antiochus, the fatherof the founder; the second after himself; thethird after his wife Apamea, and the fourth inhonor of his mother. The appellation Tetrapoliswas given also to Antioch, because it consisted by Daphne. A multitude of Jews resided in
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