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2020 Hindsight
23 October
Macedonian Notes
2 Corinthians 8
And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian congregations.
2 Corinthians 8:1
A worthwhile study
Macedonian Congregations
• Philippians
• Thessalonians
• Bereans
Macedonia
Acts16:9-12;18:5;19:21-29;20:1-3;27:2
Rom15:26
1Cor16:5
2Cor1:16;2:13;7:5;8:1;11:9
Philip4:15
1Thes1:7,8;4:10
1Tim1:3
“After all this had happened, Paul decided to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. “After I have been there,” he said, “I must visit Rome also.” He sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he stayed in the province of Asia a little longer.”
Acts 19:21-22
“We boarded a ship from Adramyttium about to sail for ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.”
Acts 27:2
“And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.”
1 Thessalonians 1:7
“Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only.”
Philippians 4:15
Macedonia & Achaia, Rome & Spain, Destination Jerusalem
“But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you, I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to see you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while. Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem in the service of the Lord’s people there. For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the Lord’s people in Jerusalem. They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews’ spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings. So after I have completed this task and have made sure that they have received this contribution, I will go to Spain and visit you on the way. I know that when I come to you, I will come in the full measure of the blessing of Christ.”
Romans 15:23-29
See also
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/tuck/the_model_churches_of_macedonia.htm
And a miscellaneous excerpt
“It is not probable that St Paul on any subsequent occasion preached in other Macedonian towns. In Romans xv. 19 it is true he speaks of having preached ‘as far as Ulyricum,’ but if his visit to Beroea may not be considered to justify the expression, the Gospel may well have been spread southward through the labours of his companions Silas, Timotheus and Luke between his first and second visits to Macedonia. In the scanty fragments of his Apology which survive, Melito, addressing M. Antoninus, appeals to the fact that his father wrote letters to the people of Larissa, Thessalonica and Athens forbidding them to molest the Christians.”
https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/joseph-barber-lightfoot-biblical-essays/the-churches-of-macedonia.html
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