Much exhortation; which after so great a stir and opposition against them, the disciples could not but stand in great need of, that they might not be offended at the cross of Christ: and also mingling consolations with his exhortations, as the word indifferently signifies, as the case would well bear, there being a special blessing promised unto such as are persecuted for righteousness sake, Matthew 5:10 1 Peter 3:14. Came into Greece; Attica, in which province Athens was: otherwise Macedonia was in Greece largely taken.

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