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Monk Linda at the ruins of the Temple of Zeus in Athens. __________________
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Athens, Corinth, Thessaloniki, the Isle of Patmos. The map of Greece reminds us of New Testament times.
The Areopagus (Mars Hill), where the Apostle Paul preached to the Athenians. Like many Christians, Monk Preston and Monk Linda also climbed this famous hill to stand a moment in the very spot where Paul once preached, when they visited here in 2001. It is composed of solid marble, and is very slippery in places where it has been polished by the passage of the untold millions of Christian pilgrims who have visited here in the past two thousand years. "Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry... And they took him and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, 'May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?'...Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars Hill and said, 'Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious...'" (For complete text, see: Acts 16:19-34).
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"And when we had sailed slowly many days, ...the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete..." (Acts 27:7). ____________________________________ See Also: ________________________________________ Copyright © 2001 S.G.P. All rights reserved. 
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A smaller Temple
of Athena on the Acropolis. ________________________________________
Sailing the wine-dark Aegean Sea of
Odysseus and St. Paul,
Monk Preston visits a 