Word: galatia
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...Galatia (pop. 1,023) sits alongside the two-lane tarmac of Highway 34 in Southern Illinois like hips on a snake. Barely. There is a cluster of neat single-story frame houses, a couple of eating places, a bank, a gas station and small supermarket. A lone yellow blinker slows traffic a little. But few outsiders ever stop, and that is fine with Galatians, who have better things to do than chat. They raise corn, graze cattle and dig coal for a living. "Until lately," drawls one miner, "two dogs crossing the road at the same time...
...executed as a criminal was, as Paul said, plain foolishness to Greeks but a special stumbling block to Jews. Paul inevitably did better among the Gentiles-until the almost inevitable blowup, usually organized by dissident Jews. Then his personal bravery was an evangelistic asset. In three successive towns in Galatia, for example, Paul and Barnabas were expelled with violence (in one Paul was nearly stoned to death), but they returned and organized churches. In Ephesus, the makers of souvenir silver models of the temple of Artemis for the tourist trade organized a spectacular riot against Paul and his fellow Christians...
...barbarians-the Gauls or Galatians-who had already overrun Italy and Greece, and were invited into Asia Minor by the king of Bithynia who hired them as mercenaries. These barbarians were first repulsed by At talus who confined them within the country to which they gave the name of Galatia. They did not cease to be troublesome, however, but continued to make attacks on Pergamon as late as 187 B. C. The attacks of the barbarians are important as the energy called forth to resist them had its effect on the art and sculpture of Pergamon...