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the most important town of European Turkey, under the name of Saloniki, with a mixed population of about 85,000.
•THEUDAS thanksgiving, referred to by Gamaliel in his speech before the council at Jerusalem (Acts 5:36). He headed an insurrection against the Roman authority. Beyond this nothing is known of him.
•THICK CLAY (Habakkuk 2:6) is correctly rendered in the Revised Version “pledges.” The Chaldean power is here represented as a rapacious usurer, accumulating the wealth that belonged to others.