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Chloe
[People]Chloe is a woman mentioned only once in Scripture, in 1 Corinthians 1:11. Paul wrote that he had learned of contentions in the Corinthian church from "them which are of the house of Chloe."
Paphos
[Bible]Paphos was a city on the southwestern coast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. According to Acts 13, Paul and Barnabas proclaimed the gospel there to the Roman proconsul Sergius Paulus during their first missionary journey.
Antonia Fortress
[Bible]The Antonia Fortress was a stronghold built by Herod the Great at the northwest corner of the Temple in Jerusalem. It is generally identified with the "castle" into which the Roman chief captain brought Paul in Acts 21–23.
Bithynia
[Bible]Bithynia was a region in northwestern Asia Minor bordering the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara. In Acts, it is the region the Holy Spirit prevented Paul and his companions from entering. In 1 Peter, it is one of the regions where the letter's recipients lived.
Drink Offering
[Bible]The drink offering was an Old Testament offering in which a beverage such as wine was poured out to God, usually alongside the burnt offering or the peace offering. In the New Testament, Paul compared his own devotion and death to a drink offering.
Pamphylia
[Bible]Pamphylia was a region on the southern coast of Asia Minor (modern Türkiye). In the Book of Acts, it appears in the list of nations at Pentecost, in the account of Paul's first missionary journey, and in the narrative of his voyage to Rome. It is known as the place where Mark left Paul and his companions.
Euraquilo
[Bible]Euraquilo is the name of the violent northeast wind that, according to Acts 27, struck the ship carrying Paul to Rome off the coast of Crete.
Parchment
[Bible]Parchment is a writing material made by preparing the skins of animals such as sheep, goats, and calves into thin sheets. In the Bible it appears in 2 Timothy 4:13 as one of the items Paul asked Timothy to bring him.
Church of Antioch
[History]The church of Antioch was an early church founded in the first century in Antioch, a major city of Syria. It was there that believers were first called "Christians," and it was this church that sent Barnabas and Paul on the mission to the Gentiles.
Via Egnatia
[History]The Via Egnatia was a trunk road that Rome built across the Balkan Peninsula in the late second century BC. It is known as the route the apostle Paul traveled on his way to Philippi and Thessalonica.
Church in Rome
[History]The church in Rome was the Christian community in Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire, during the first century. It was the church to which the apostle Paul addressed his Epistle to the Romans, and it appears to have consisted of several house congregations.
Samothrace
[Bible]Samothrace is an island in the northern Aegean Sea. It appears once in Scripture, in Acts 16:11, as the place where Paul and his companions stopped for a night while crossing from Troas to Macedonia.
Phoenix
[Bible]Phoenix was a harbor on the southern coast of the island of Crete. In Acts 27, the ship carrying Paul set out for it to spend the winter there but never reached it.
N. T. Wright
[People]N. T. Wright (Tom Wright, born 1948) is an English Anglican bishop and New Testament scholar. He served as Bishop of Durham and is regarded as a leading scholar of the "New Perspective on Paul."
Society of Jesus
[History]The Society of Jesus is a Catholic religious order of men that began in 1534, when Ignatius of Loyola and his companions took vows in Paris. It received approval from Pope Paul III in 1540 and has placed particular emphasis on foreign missions and higher education.
Illyricum
[Bible]Illyricum was a Roman province on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. In Romans 15:19, Paul names it as the outer limit of the region in which he had preached the gospel.
Asia (Roman Province)
[Bible]Asia was a Roman province in western Asia Minor during the New Testament period. Centered on Ephesus, it was the region where Paul carried out an extended ministry and where the seven churches of Revelation were located. It is distinct from the modern continent of Asia.
Spain (Bible)
[Bible]Spain is a New Testament place name referring to the Iberian Peninsula, which includes present-day Spain. It appears in the Epistle to the Romans as the destination the apostle Paul planned to reach by way of Rome in order to preach the gospel.
Hosea 13
[Bible]Hosea 13 is a declaration of judgment against Ephraim (the northern kingdom of Israel), which had forgotten God through idolatry and pride. It foretells the fall of Samaria. Paul quoted verse 14, "O death, I will be thy plagues," in his teaching on the resurrection.
Acts 15
[Bible]Acts 15 is the chapter of the Book of Acts that recounts the Jerusalem Council, which considered whether Gentile believers should be required to be circumcised and to keep the Law. It also records the letter conveying the council's decision and the account of Paul and Barnabas parting ways over Mark.