| Acha'ia. (trouble). Signifies in the New Testament, a Roman province which included the whole of the Peloponnesus and the greater part of Hellas proper, with the adjacent islands. This province, with that of Macedonia, comprehended the while of Greece; hence Achaia and Macedonia are frequently mentioned together in the New Testament to indicate all Greece. Act 18:12; Act 19:21; Romans 15:26; Rom 16:5; 1 Corinthians 16:15; 2 Corinthians 7:5; 2Co 9:2; 2Co 11:10; 1 Thessalonians 1:7-8. In the time of the emperor Claudius, it was governed by a proconsul, translated in the Authorized Version "deputy," of Achaia. Acts 18:12." Smith's Bible Dictionary or |
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