LYSTRA, a City of Lycaonia, whereof Timothy was a Native. The Apostles Saint Paul and Saint Barnabas having preached there, and healed a Man who had been lame Acts xiv. 6, 7, 8.from his Birth a, were taken both for Gods; Saint Paul for Mercury, and Saint Barnabas for Jupiter. These Apostles had a great deal of Difficulty to prevent the
a In the Year of J. C. 45. according to the vulgar Æra. People from offering Sacrifices to them: But very soon after, certain Jews of Iconium and Antioch in Pisidia coming thither, animated the Populace against them, who thereupon began to throw Stones at Paul and Barnabas, and dragged them out of the City, supposing they were dead.