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A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…
A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Usher.A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Ussher.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, 1643
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And as these are thus exempted by S. Luke; so the rest that remain of the proper Asia, together with the seven Churches of Asia mentioned in the Revelation of S. John, a•e all of them comprehended within the limits of that Lydian Asia, whereof we have spoken. For, that Pergamus was a city of Lydia, is plainly affirmed by uXenophon: to whom Aristotle also may be added, in his book [Greek or Hebrew], where he speaketh of a war sometime raised [Greek or Hebrew]. That Smyrna at first was possessed by xthe Lydians, is testified also by Aristotle, treating of the birth and education of Homer: who seemeth to have had the surname of Maeonius, either from Maeon the king, or Maeonia the country it self of Lydia; among the cities whereof, Smyrna (the most likely place of that famous Poet's nativity) is by Scylax Caryandensis reckoned. as Ephesus likewise is, both by him and yHerodotus; Sardis, Philadelphia and Thyatyra by Ptolemy: and zLaodicea by Stephanus Byzantinus.
And as these are thus exempted by S. Luke; so the rest that remaine of the proper Asia, together with the seven Churches of Asia mentioned in the Revelation of S. Iohn, a•e all of them comprehended within the limits of that Lydian Asia, whereof we have spoken. For, that Pergamus was a city of Lydia, is plainly affirmed by uXenophon: to whom Aristotle also may be added, in his booke 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, where he speaketh of a warre sometime raised 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. That Smyrna at first was poss•ssed by xthe Lydians, is testifyed also by Aristotle, treating of the birth and education of Homer: who seemeth to have had the surname of Maeonius, either from Maeon the king, or Maeonia the countrey it selfe of Lydia; among the cities whereof, Smyrna (the most likely place of that famous Poëts nativitie) is by Scylax Caryandensis reckoned. as Ephesus likewise is, both by him and