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Asia
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
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In the New Testament not the continent, nor Asia Minor, but the W. of Asia Minor, with Ephesus as its capital, including Mysia, Lydia, Caria. Attalus, king of Pergamus, left it to the Romans 138 B.C. It was placed by Augustus among the senatorial provinces, as distinguished from the imperial provinces. Hence it was governed by a "proconsul," as Acts 19:38 (anthupatos ), with the minute propriety which marks truth, incidentally intimates. It had its "assize days" (agoraioi , margin "the court days are kept.") Here were the seven churches addressed in the Revelation. In the Old Testament "Asia" does not occur.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Asia'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/a/asia.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Asia'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/a/asia.html. 1949.
