. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Antioch (Acts vi. 5). The Christians, dispersed fromJerusalem at Stephens death, preached ,the Gospelat Antioch (xi. 19). From Jerusalem, Agabus, whoforetold the famine, and other prophets, came to An-tioch (xi. 27, 28); and Barnabas and Saul were con-sequently sent on a mission of charity from Antiochto Jerusalem (xi. 30, xii. 25). From Jerusalem theJudaizers came, who disturbed the church at Antioch(xv. 1); and at Antioch St. Paul rebuked St. Peter. Antioch in Pisidia.—From Arundells Discoveries in Asia Minor.—(Fbn.) for conduct into which he had b
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Antioch (Acts vi. 5). The Christians, dispersed fromJerusalem at Stephens death, preached ,the Gospelat Antioch (xi. 19). From Jerusalem, Agabus, whoforetold the famine, and other prophets, came to An-tioch (xi. 27, 28); and Barnabas and Saul were con-sequently sent on a mission of charity from Antiochto Jerusalem (xi. 30, xii. 25). From Jerusalem theJudaizers came, who disturbed the church at Antioch(xv. 1); and at Antioch St. Paul rebuked St. Peter. Antioch in Pisidia.—From Arundells Discoveries in Asia Minor.—(Fbn.) for conduct into which he had been betrayed throughthe influence of emissaries from Jerusalem (Gal. , 12).—At Antioch the first Gentile church wasfounded (Actsxi. 20, 21); here the disciples of JesusChrist were first called Christians (xi. 26); here St. n Syria.—From Smiths Smaller Dictionary. Paul exercised his ministerial work (xi. 22-26, , xv. 35, and xviii. 22, 23); here he began andended his first and second missionary journeys (, xiv. 26, xv. 36, xviii. 22), and entered upon thethird (23). To the Gentile converts at Antioch wereespecially addressed the letters from the apostles,&c., at Jerusalem (xv. 23). Antioch was afterwardan important centre for Christian progress. Ignatius,who suffered martyrdom under Trajan at Rome, wasbishop of Antioch fortyyears ; Cbrysostom, the elo-quent preacher, was bornat Antioch. The bishop hasbeen styled patriarch of An-tioch since the fourth cen
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