Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
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Interpretation
The difference in languages which arose at Babel, has much hindered the spread of knowledge and religion. The instruments whom the Lord first employed in spreading the Christian religion, could have made no progress without this gift, which proved that their authority was from God.
Glossary
- Asia Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Asia.
- Cappadocia Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Cappadocia.
- Judea Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Jerusalem.
- Mesopotamia Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Harran.
- Pontus Place
- A province of Asia Minor, stretching along the southern coast of the Euxine Sea, corresponding nearly to the modern province of Trebizond. In the time of the apostles it was a Roman province. Modern identification: Pontus.