“Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,”
Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; — the geographic expansion continues northward (Black Sea coast: Pontus; Roman Asia Minor provinces) and southward (Egypt and Libya). Asia was one of the Roman empire's most significant provinces, containing major cities like Ephesus; this region will later become a center of early Christianity. The systematic geographic listing emphasizes the gospel's reaching toward all known peoples.
Church Fathers on Acts 2:10
Because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were amazed, it says, and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? Acts 2:7-13 They immediately turned their eyes towards the Apostles. And how (it follows) hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in…
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