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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 Acts 15:23: Syria has been used at times to designate all 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 which lived in Antioch (see note 3 at Acts 11:19, p. 638) and the area where Paul and Barnabas had just been on their first missionary journey (i.e. Iconium, Lystra, Derbe etc.). So, this locates the Syria and Cilicia spoken of here as the regions from Antioch through Galatia.
