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PAPHOS, a famous City of the Isle of Cyprus, where St. Paul converted to Christianity the Proconsul Sergius Paulus1, and struck with Blindness a Jewish Sorcerer, and false Prophet, called Bar-jesus, who would have hindered this Coyersion. Paphos was at the Western Extremity of the Isle of Cyprus.
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Acts xiii. 6. In the Year of Christ 44. ↩
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