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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Acts 13:50

Acts 13:50. The devout and honourable women. Strabo, quoted by Howson (St. Paul, chap. vi), makes special mention of the position of the female sex in the towns of Western Asia, and speaks in strong terms of the power which they possessed and exercised in controlling and modifying the religious opinions of the men.

And the chief men of the city. Most probably the husbands and kinsmen of the devout and honourable women just referred to.

Raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. Pisidian Antioch was at this time a Roman colony; but we read of no attempt on the part of the Jews to excite the Roman magistrates against the Christian party. The persecution was probably a tumultuous outbreak, and the apostles for the sake of peace retired from the place. We find them in Acts 14:21 again in the city. They would hardly have returned so soon, had they been formally banished by the act of the Roman government.

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