So that ye were ensamples— Τυπους, types; that is, plans, models, of patterns; and, by a metaphor, it is used for an example, or moral pattern. Philippi and Berea were in Macedonia; Athens and Corinth were in Achaia. The Apostle mentions these parts, as he had just been travelling through them, before he came to Corinth.
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1 Thessalonians 1:7
7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.