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Posted by Pope Reverend I, BV on 2/3/2009, 10:03 pm, in reply to "Agreed"
While the Citizens of the region welcomed the Roman occupation forces...
-- The League of the Decapolis was formed After Pompey's campaign.
And, while the Decapolis survived until the 2nd century CE.
The "Ten Cities" were divvied up and re-classified under Emperor Trajan as part of different Roman provinces, Syria, Palestina, Secunda and... Arabia.
Wiki: Decapolis
The term "Decapolis" fell out of use after the emperor Trajan added the province of Arabia to the Roman Empire in the second century AD.
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After the dissolution of the Nabataean Kingdom by Trajan (106 CE), the Decapolis region was included in Provincia Arabia, a new province that more or less extended over the former kingdom of the Nabataeans.
So, while Aretas IV was the Arabian/Nabatean King at the time of Paul's Damascus Adventure...
-- He had nothing to do with the Decapolis.
And...
-- Neither did Damascus.
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