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Antonia

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

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one of the towers of Jerusalem, called by Herod after M. Antony. The Romans generally kept a garrison in this tower; and from thence it was that the tribune ran with his soldiers to rescue St. Paul out of the hands of the Jews, who had seized him in the temple, and designed to have murdered him, Acts 21:31-32 .

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Watson, Richard. Entry for 'Antonia'. Richard Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​wtd/​a/antonia.html. 1831-2.
 
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