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And they wrote [letters] by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren [send] greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
Note 1 at Ac 15:23: Syria has been used at times to designate all of the region of Palestine as well as the Babylonian or Assyrian empire, Syria simply being a shortened version of Assyria. This verse is speaking of the Gentiles who lived in Antioch (see note 3 at Ac 11:19) and the area where Paul and Barnabas had just been on their first missionary journey (i.e., Iconium, Lystra, Derbe, etc.). This would put the Syria and Cilicia spoken of here as the regions from Antioch through Galatia.
