Antioch in Pisidia
Antioch in Pisidia
Among the present ruins of this once important city are a large building, probably a church, of prodigious stones, of which the ground plan and the circular end for the bema still remain. There are also the ruins of a wall, of a temple of Dionysus, and of a small temple. ‘ Another construction, apparently of the principal temple, is cut in the rock in a semicircular form, in the centre of which a mass of rock has been left, which is hollowed out into a square chamber. Masses of highly finished marble cornices, with several broken fluted columns, are spread about the hollow. See Lewin, Life and Epistles of St. Paul, i, 137 sq.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
ANTIOCH IN PISIDIA
Pisidia was the traditional name of a highland district in Asia Minor. When the Romans took control of Asia Minor, they replaced the many local districts with a smaller number of Roman provinces. Pisidia now fell within the Roman province of Galatia. Antioch lay within Galatia, on the border area between the two smaller districts of Pisidia and Phrygia (Act 13:14; Act 16:6; for map see GALATIA). It is usually referred to as Pisidian Antioch to distinguish it from Syrian Antioch.
When Paul and Barnabas first came to Antioch, they preached in the Jewish synagogue on the Sabbath and there was a good response, both from Jews and from Gentiles (Act 13:14; Act 13:42-43). The next Sabbath almost the whole Gentile population of Antioch came to the synagogue to hear the missionaries preach. The Jewish leaders became jealous and angry, and drove Paul and Barnabas from the city (Act 13:44-50; 2Ti 3:11). The two missionaries, not lacking in courage, returned to the city soon after (Act 14:21).
Antioch was one of the churches of Galatia that Paul addressed in his Letter to the Galatians (Gal 1:2; see GALATIANS, LETTER TO THE). Paul visited the churches of Galatia again on his second and third missionary journeys (Act 16:6; Act 18:23).
Fuente: Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
Antioch in Pisidia
[An’tioch in Pisid’ia]
A Roman colony of Phrygia in Asia Minor, founded by Seleueus Nicator. Its ruins are now called Yalobatch or Yalowaj . Paul’s labour here was so successful that it roused the opposition of the Jews and he was driven to Iconium and Lystra; but he returned with Silas. Act 13:14; Act 14:19-21; 2Ti 3:11.