Difference between revisions of "Berea"
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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34789" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34789" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> A city of Macedon, whither Paul withdrew, with Silas and Timothy, at his first visit to Europe, from [[Jewish]] persecution at Thessalonica, whence also, when the persecutors followed him from Thessalonica, he retired seawards to proceed to [[Athens]] ( Acts 17:10-15). The Berean [[Jews]] were "more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word (preached) with all readiness of mind (not in a cavilling, critical spirit), and (yet not in a credulous spirit, for they) searched the [[Scriptures]] daily whether those things were so." (See Isaiah 8:20; John 5:39; Galatians 1:8-9.) The result was necessarily, "many believed; also of honorable women, which were Greeks, and of men not a few." </p> <p> Sopater, or Sosipater, one of them, became Paul's missionary companion ( Acts 20:4; Romans 16:21) in returning to Asia from his second visit to Europe, where he had been with him at Corinth. Now Verria, or Kara-verria, commanding a wide view of the plain of the Axius and Haliacmon; one of the most pleasant towns of Roumelia, with 20,000 inhabitants. One of the two roads from [[Thessalonica]] to [[Berea]] passed by Pella. A road led from Berea to Dium, whence probably Paul sailed to Athens, leaving Silas and Timothy behind. </p> | ||
== Bridgeway Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_18432" /> == | == Bridgeway Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_18432" /> == | ||
<p> Paul, accompanied by Silas, first visited Berea on his second missionary journey ( Acts 17:10). The town was in the province of [[Macedonia]] in northern Greece, on the main road from Thessalonica in the north to Athens in the south. (For map of the region see | <p> Paul, accompanied by Silas, first visited Berea on his second missionary journey ( Acts 17:10). The town was in the province of [[Macedonia]] in northern Greece, on the main road from Thessalonica in the north to Athens in the south. (For map of the region see ACTS, BOOK OF.) </p> <p> The Jews of the local synagogue, unlike many of the Jews Paul met on his travels, were prepared to listen to Paul’s teaching and test it against the Scriptures. As a result, many believed. However, Paul was forced to leave the young church when Jews from neighbouring Thessalonica forced him out of the town ( Acts 17:11-14). Paul most likely revisited Berea on his third missionary journey ( Acts 20:1-2). A representative from the Berean church joined his party to take an offering from the Greek churches to the poor [[Christians]] in [[Jerusalem]] ( Acts 20:4; Romans 15:26; 2 Corinthians 8:1-4; 2 Corinthians 9:1-4). </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_65165" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_65165" /> == | ||
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== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15684" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15684" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> A city of Macedonia, not far from [[Pella]] towards the southwest, and near Mount Bermius. It was afterwards called Irenopolis, and is now called by the Turks, Boor; by others, Cara Veria. Paul preached the gospel here with success; the ingenuous [[Bereans]] examined his doctrine by the Old [[Testament]] scriptures, and many believed, Acts 17:10,14; 20:4 . </p> | ||
== Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_80376" /> == | == Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_80376" /> == | ||
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== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69763" /> == | == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69763" /> == | ||
<p> [[Berea]] ('' | <p> [[Berea]] (''Be-Rç'Ah'' ). A city of Macedonia, Acts 17:10-13 (Berœa in R. V.), on the eastern side of the Olympian mountains; now Verria, with a population of about 6000. </p> | ||
== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30824" /> == | == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30824" /> == | ||
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== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49911" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49911" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> BEREA </strong> ( 1Ma 9:4 ). See Berœa, <strong> 3 </strong> . </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_1464" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_1464" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_24684" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_24684" /> == | ||
<p> (Βερέα ), a place in [[Judea]] apparently not very far from Jerusalem, where Bacchides, the general of Demetrius, encamped shortly before the engagement in which [[Judas]] Maccabaeus was slain ( 1 [[Maccabees]] 9:4). Other copies, however, read ''Berzath'' (Βεηρζάθ, Βεηρθάζ, Βηρζήθ, etc., see Grimm, in loc.), from in which Reland conjectures (''Palaest.'' p. 624) that it may be the [[Bezeth]] (q.v.) of 1 Maccabees 7:19, especially as Josephus, in his parallel account (Ant. 12, 11, 4), calls the place in question Bethzetho (Βηθζηθώ, ''Ant.'' 12, | <p> (Βερέα ), a place in [[Judea]] apparently not very far from Jerusalem, where Bacchides, the general of Demetrius, encamped shortly before the engagement in which [[Judas]] Maccabaeus was slain ( 1 [[Maccabees]] 9:4). Other copies, however, read ''Berzath'' (Βεηρζάθ, Βεηρθάζ, Βηρζήθ, etc., see Grimm, in loc.), from in which Reland conjectures (''Palaest.'' p. 624) that it may be the [[Bezeth]] (q.v.) of 1 Maccabees 7:19, especially as Josephus, in his parallel account (Ant. 12, 11, 4), calls the place in question Bethzetho (Βηθζηθώ, ''Ant.'' 12, II, 1; compo. 10, 2). (See [[Beroea]]). </p> <p> ( 1 Maccabees 9:4). Lieut. Conder (Tent Work, ii, 335) proposes to identify this place with Bireh, which, however, has long since been settled as the site of Beeroth. </p> | ||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15129" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15129" /> == |