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Philippi
Paul came here after a vision of a man of Macedonia asking for help. Philippi was a Roman colony, founded by Philip II and later settled with veteran soldiers under Augustus, and it carried itself like a small Rome.
Paul came here after a vision of a man of Macedonia asking for help. Philippi was a Roman colony, founded by Philip II and later settled with veteran soldiers under Augustus, and it carried itself like a small Rome.
Philippi was a Roman colony in Macedonia, founded by Philip II and later resettled with veteran soldiers under Augustus, giving it the legal status and civic pride of a "miniature Rome." Paul, guided there by a vision of a Macedonian man, planted the first Christian church on European soil in the city, converting the merchant Lydia and casting a spirit of divination out of a slave girl before he and Silas were beaten and imprisoned (Acts 16:9-40). Archaeologists have excavated its well-preserved forum and theater, along with a prison traditionally associated with Paul's imprisonment, and Paul later wrote his letter to the Philippians to the congregation he founded there.
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- ruins at Philippi
- Acts 16:12
- Acts 20:6
- Philippians 1:1
- 1 Thessalonians 2:2
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