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Paul: Apostle of the Free Spirit is F. F. Bruce’s classic meditation on the life and theology of Paul. Here, Bruce expounds on Paul’s teaching not systematically but rather by treating its main themes in their historical context, as Paul himself had occasion to develop them in his lectures. For eighteen years as Rylands Professor of New Testament Exegesis in the University of Manchester, F. F....

assumed the name of Antioch-on-the-Cydnus, a name which appears on its new coin issue in the reign of Antiochus IV (from 171 B.C. onwards). This new coin issue seems to coincide with a reorganization of the city’s constitution, which conferred on it a greater degree of municipal autonomy.5 In 83 B.C. it fell into the power of Tigranes I, king of Armenia, the ally and son-in-law of Mithridates VI, but passed into Roman hands as a result of Pompey’s victories, and became the capital of the province
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