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Proconsul
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Proconsul
An extinct genus of primates that lived in African rainforests 23 million to 17 million years ago during the Miocene epoch


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This is eerily prophetic of Mandelson's proconsular role in Northern Ireland.
There are other persons of means who function as patrons, hosts, or positive examples including the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:26), Judas (9:11), Simon (10:6), Proconsular governor Sergius Paulus (13:4-12), Lydia (16:15), influential Greek men and women from Beroea (17:12), Dionysius, a member of the court of the Areopagus (17:34), Aquila and Priscilla (18:1-4), Crispus, a synagogue leader (18:8), Philip (21:7-14), and Mnason (21:16).
Meanwhile, events had exposed the limitations of the proconsular system--and of American's reliance on gunboats and Gurkhas to police the world.
 
 
 
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