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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
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Aquila and Priscilla had just come from Italy when Paul met them, after Claudius threw the Jews out of Rome. Paul later went there as a prisoner, by way of a shipwreck. Hebrews ends with greetings from "those from Italy".
Aquila and Priscilla had just come from Italy when Paul met them, after Claudius threw the Jews out of Rome. Paul later went there as a prisoner, by way of a shipwreck. Hebrews ends with greetings from "those from Italy".
Italy is named several times in the New Testament in connection with the spread of the early church. Aquila and Priscilla had recently come from Italy when Paul met them in Corinth, having been expelled from Rome along with other Jews by an edict of the emperor Claudius, a decree the Roman historian Suetonius later corroborates, noting that Claudius expelled Jews from the city for rioting "at the instigation of Chrestus," likely a garbled reference to disputes over Christ (Acts 18:2). Paul was later transported to Italy as a prisoner, surviving a shipwreck off Malta before finally reaching Rome (Acts 27:1-6; 28:11-16), and the writer of Hebrews closes his letter with greetings from "those from Italy," likely Italian Christians living abroad (Hebrews 13:24).
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- panorama of hills in Italy
- Acts 18:2
- Acts 27:1
- Acts 27:6
- Hebrews 13:24
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