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gogue; and so they pushed on to Thessalonica (one hundred miles from Philippi), “where there was a Jewish synagogue.” Still important today, Thessalonica was the most important city of ancient Macedonia. It was founded in 315 B.C. and named by Cassander, its founder, for his wife, who was a stepsister of Alexander the Great. The book by Stanley Monroe Hor-
ton, which covers the chapters of Acts, is divided into twenty-eight sections that discuss with biblical neatness the most important topics of the fifth part of the New Testament. The promise of the Holy Spirit, the Ascension, the life of the early Christians, the persecution of Peter and John, the seven chosen, the conversion of Saul, the choice of Timothy, the council in Jerusalem, the arrival of Paul in Rome, are some of the events described by Horton. An important factor in this spread of the Gospel in Roman Asia was the fact God did “extraordinary miracles through Paul.” The Greek really means the Lord made miracles an everyday occurrence. So powerfully was the Lord