";s:4:"text";s:2583:" Pisidia (pitchy) was a district in Asia Minor north of Pamphylia, and reached to and was partly included in Phrygia.Thus Antioch in Pisidia was sometimes called a Phrygian town.
pi-sid'-i-a (ten Pisidian (); in Acts 13:14, Codices Sinaitica, Alexandrinus, Vaticanus, Ephraemi give Antiocheian ten Pisidian, "the Pisidian Antioch," the other manuscripts, Antiocheian tes Pisidias, "Antioch of Pisidia.
At the end of the first century BCE, Antioch was subdued by the king of Galatia, Amyntas.
Antioch of Pisidia was one of the main stops on Paul’s missionary itinerary.
Antioch (Pisidia) The Pisidia region, in eastern Asia Minor in which Antioch resided, was known in the first century as an unsafe part of the Roman Empire in which to travel. (Acts 14:21,24,25) comp. ... Limnae was an episcopal see, now listed in the Annuario Pontificio as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric, suffragan of Antioch of Pisidia, since the diocese was nominally restored in 1933 (Limne in Curiate Italian; Latin adjective Limnen(sis)).
However, Pisidia, along with Antioch of Pisidia, was not incorporated directly into the Roman Empire, but passed under the control of the Kingdom of Cappadocia. Paul, when writing to the Corinthians regarding how much he had endured as a servant of God, writes that he was at times "in perils of robbers" (2Corinthians 11:26) while serving the churches. Pisidian Antioch stood on a plateau 3,600 feet above sea level.
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The second Antioch is around the corner so to speak, passing northeast through Cilicia and Pisidia past the towns of Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe. St. Paul passed through Pisidia twice, with Barnabas, on the first missionary journey, i.e., both in going from Perga to Iconium, (Acts 13:13,14,51) and in returning.
"The former, but not the latter, reading correctly describes the condition of affairs at the time when Paul traveled in the country; see below):
PISIDIA.
From Antioch, relief was sent to famine-hit brethren in Judea (Acts 11:27-30). The town, in the north of Pisidia, is only mentioned by ecclesiastical writers.