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See also:SILAS (fl. A.D. 50) , See also:early See also:Christian See also:prophet and missionary, was the See also:companion of St See also:Paul on the second See also:journey, when he took the See also:place formerly held by See also:Barnabas . The tour included S . See also:Galatia, Troas, See also:Philippi (where he was imprisoned), Thessalonica and Beroea, where See also:Silas was See also:left with See also:Timothy, though89 he afterwards rejoined Paul at See also:Corinth . He is in all See also:probability the See also:Silvanus ' who is associated with Paul in the letters to the See also:Thessalonians, mentioned again in 2 See also:Cor. i . 19, and the See also:bearer and See also:amanuensis of 1 See also:Peter (see v . 12) . It is possible, indeed, that he has an even closer connexion with this See also:letter, and some scholars (e.g . R . See also:Scott in The Pauline Epistles, 1909) are inclined to give him a prominent place among the writers of the New Testament .. He was of Jewish See also:birth and probably also a See also:Roman See also:citizen . |
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