Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 20:2

2 And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,

Which after so great a stir and opposition against them, the Disciples could not but stand in great need of, that they might not be offended at the Cross of Christ; as also mingling consolations with his exhortations; as the word indifferently signifies, as the case would well bear; there being a special blessing promised unto such as are persecuted for righteousness sake, Matth. 5.10. 1 Pet. 3.14▪

Attica; in which Province Athens was: Otherwise Macedonia was in Greece largely taken.