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Cyrene

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

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CYRENE . Capital of Libya (Tripoli) in N. Africa ( Acts 2:10 ), the home of numerous Jews who with the ‘Libertines’ (freedmen from Rome?) and Alexandrians had a synagogue of their own at Jerusalem ( Acts 6:9 ). Many of these became Christians, as Simon and his sons (doubtless), Mark 15:21; Lucius, Acts 13:1; and those in Acts 11:20 who preached to the ‘Greeks’ ( v.l. ‘Hellenists’).

A. J. Maclean.

Bibliography Information
Hastings, James. Entry for 'Cyrene'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​c/cyrene.html. 1909.
 
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