RELIGST 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Epistle To The Philippians, Colossae

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2HH3
• Professor: Stephen Westerholm

Document Summary

Acts 16 (2nd mission) where paul gets vision to visit macedonia and that is why he ends up going to philippi on the 2nd trip. ***ignatian way a roman road for the army that goes from west coast (greece) to. There were not enough synagogues, so there were a few jewish women who met at the ri(cid:448)er, a(cid:374)d lydia (cid:894)o(cid:374)e of paul"s first (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)erts(cid:895) prayed there just outside philippi. Colossae paul had never been there before, but one of his coworkers had gone there before and preached the gospel there. Laodicea paul was told to go preach there and write a letter however it got lost, some think that ephesians could be this letter. *** also laodicea is the 7th church mentioned in. Hierapolis contains the church of phillip and had a large jewish population. Paul does not seem very anxious about this group of people.