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Derbe
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
or DERBE . A city in the ethnic district Lycaonia, and in the region Lycaonia-Galatica of the Roman province Galatia, on the main road from Iconium (or Lystra) S.E. to Laranda. The modern villages Losta and Gudelissin are built on the ruins of the city or its territory. Amyntas, king of Galatia, had conquered it, and in b.c. 25 it passed with the rest of his territory into the hands of the Romans. From a.d. 41 to 72 it was the frontier city of the province, and was honoured with the prefix Claudio . It was in this period that St. Paul visited it ( Acts 14:6 ), and then retraced his steps to Lystra, etc. On his second journey, coming from Cilicia, he reached it first and then went on to Lystra, as he did also on the third journey. Gaius of Derbe was one of the representatives of Galatia in the deputation which carried the collection for the poor Christians in Jerusalem ( Acts 20:4 ). Derbe was on the whole one of the least important places visited by St. Paul, and appears little in history.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Derbe'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/d/derbe.html. 1909.
