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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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Chapter 4: Of the Asian Diocese, and the Metropolitan cities thereof; with the Civill and Ecclesia…
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Whence he that wrote the book of the places mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles (falsely fathered upon S. Hierom) saying that dwhere the city of Ephesus is, there is the Asia specially so called; may seem to have meant no other thing thereby, but that the province which had Ephesus for it's Metropolis, was that which had the name of Asia in a singular manner appropriated unto it. if therein he looked any further then to the ba•e words of the text; wherein it is said, that Paul econtinuing at Ephesus by the space of two years, all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord. and that afterward fhe determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: and thereupon sending for the Elders of the Church of Ephesus, he said unto them; Ye know from the fi•st day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons. Out of all which it was no hard matter for him to gather at large, as gErasmus did after him; that Asia in the new Testament denoteth that part of Asia minor, in which Ephesus standeth.
Whence he that wrote the book of the places mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles (falsly fathered upon S. Hierom) saying that dwhere the city of Ephesus is, there is the Asia specially so called; may seem to have meant no other thing thereby, but that the province which had Ephesus for it's Metropolis, was that which had the name of Asia in a singular manner appropriated unto it. if therein he looked any further then to the ba•e words of the text; wherein it is said, that Paul econtinuing at Ephesus by the space of two years, all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord. and that afterward f