Bible Encyclopedias
Suburbs (2)
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Suburbs
in an ecclesiastical sense, meant, in the early Church, all the towns and villages within the region or district to which the city magistrate extended his jurisdiction, whose bounds, for the most part, were the bounds of the bishop's diocese. See Bingham, Christ. Antiq. bk. 9:ch. 2, 3.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Suburbs (2)'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/s/suburbs-2.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.