Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 16:12
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Acts16:12
12 And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.
A City so called from Philip the Father of Alexander the Great, who repaired a ruined Town, and caused it to be called by his name.
Or the first City in the passage from Samothracia unto Macedonia.
Where many Roman Citizens went to inhabit; and whose Inhabitants had the freedom of the City of Rome. To the Church in this City Paul wrote an Epistle.
Marginal references: Or, the first city.
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