PHILIPPI, a City of Macedonia, and a Acts xvi. 12,13,&c. In the Year of Christ 52.Roman Colony. St. Paul came to preach there in the 52d Year of the Vulgar Era, and there converted several People; among others, Lydia a Seller of Purple. He also cast out a Devil from a Servant-Maid, who had a Familiar Spirit, by which she foretold future Events, and thereby brought great Gain to her Masters. These stirr’d up the whole City against St. Paul; and the Magistrates caused him to be seized, whipt, and put in Prison. But the Day following they let him out again, and made Excuses for their ill Treatment of him, after they had been inform’d that he was a Citizen of Rome.
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