. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . (compare the preceding article). Itseems on the whole probable that the Antichrist isrepresented especially by Judaism, and that theUnman Empire is the restraining power. It was toRoman justice and Roman magistrates that theapostle had recourse at this time to shield him fromthe enmity of the Jews, and to check their violence(Acts xvi. 37 f, xvii. 6 IT., xviii. 12 ff.; Appeal;Citizen). It was only at a later date, under Nero,that Rome became the antagonist of Christendom,and then she also, in turn, was fitly portrayed bySt. John as the type of Antich
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . (compare the preceding article). Itseems on the whole probable that the Antichrist isrepresented especially by Judaism, and that theUnman Empire is the restraining power. It was toRoman justice and Roman magistrates that theapostle had recourse at this time to shield him fromthe enmity of the Jews, and to check their violence(Acts xvi. 37 f, xvii. 6 IT., xviii. 12 ff.; Appeal;Citizen). It was only at a later date, under Nero,that Rome became the antagonist of Christendom,and then she also, in turn, was fitly portrayed bySt. John as the type of Antichrist. Bible ; Canon ;Inspiration ; New Testament. Thes-sa-lo-niia(L. fr. Gr., see below), a maritimecity of Macedonia ; originally named Therma, andsituated on the Thermaic Gulf, now the GiUf ofSalonica. The city rose into importance with thedecay of Greek nationality. Cassander, the son ofAntipater, rebuilt and enlarged it, and named it afterhis wife Tin-salonica, the sister of Alexander tiikGreat, whose name commemorated in Greek a vic-. tory over the Thesxalimis w hich her father (Philip 1)obtained on the day when he heard of her birth (soDr. Howson, original author of this article). Thename, ever since, under various slight modifications,has been continuous, and the city has never ceasedto be eminent. It is now known as Salonili orSalonica, and is still the most important town ofEuropean Turkey, n.°xt after Constantinople. Underthe Romans, when Macedonia was divided into fourgovernments, Thessalonica was the capital of thesecond ; afterward, wnen the whole was consolidatedinto one province, this city became practically themetropolis. It was made a free city (RomanEmpire ; and see below), and in the first and secondcenturies a. c. was the most populous city in Mace-donia. St. Paul visited it (with Silas and Timothy)during his second missionary journey, and thusChristianity was introduced into Thessalonica. Three circumstances illustrate in an important man-ner this visit an
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