Italy
it'-a-li (Italia): At first confined as a name to the
extreme southern part of the Italian peninsula in the region
now called Calabria, whence its application was gradually
extended. In Greek usage of the 5th century BC, the name was
applied to the coasts as far as Metapontum and Posidonia,
being synonymous with Oenotria. The Oenotrians are
r...
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-General scriptures concerning
Ac 27:2; Heb 13:24
-Aquila and Priscilla expelled from
Ac 18:2...
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This word is used in the New Testament, Ac 18:2; 27:1; Heb
13:24 in the usual sense of the period, i.e. in its true
geographical sense, as denoting the whole natural peninsula
between the Alps and the Straits of Messina....
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Acts 18:2; 27:1, 6; Heb. 13:24), like most geographical names,
was differently used at different periods of history.
As the
power of Rome advanced, nations were successively
conquered and
added to it till it came to designate the whole
country to the
south of the Alps. There was constant intercourse
between
Israel and Italy in the time of ...
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abounding with calves or heifers...
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The peninsula from the Alps to the straits of Messina (Acts
18:2; Acts 27:1; Hebrews 13:24)....
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Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the
saints. They of Italy salute you....
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And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately
come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that
Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came
unto them....
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And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy,
they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto [one]
named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band....
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And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing
into Italy; and he put us therein....
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