Acts 20:15

And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus. AND WE SAILED THENCE, AND CAME THE NEXT DAY OVER AGAINST CHIOS - now Scio: one of the most beautiful of those islands between which and the coast the sail is so charming. They appear not to have touched at it. AND THE NEXT DAY WE ARRIVED AT, [ parebalomen (G3846) eis (G1519)] - rather (as Humphry renders it) 'pushed across' SAMOS - another island coming quite close to the mainland, and about as far south of Chios as it is south of Lesbos. AND TARRIED AT TROGYLLIUM - an anchorage on the projecting mainland, not more...

13-16 Paul hastened to Jerusalem, but tried to do good by the way, when going from place to place, as every good man should do. In doing God's work, our own wills and those of our friends must often be crossed; we must not spend time with them when duty calls us another way....

Verse Acts 20:15. _OVER AGAINST CHIOS_] This was a very celebrated island between _Lesbos_ and _Samos_, famous in antiquity for its extraordinary _wines_. At this island the apostle did not touch. _ARRIVED AT SAMOS_] This was another island of the _AEgean Sea_, or _Archipelago_. It does not appear that they landed at _Samos_: they passed close by it, and anchored at _Trogyllium_. This was a promontory of _Ionia_, which gave name to some small islands in the vicinity of Samos: Της δε Τρωγιλιου προκειται νησιον ὁμωνυμον: before Trogyllium is situated an island of the same name. _Strabo_, lib. xiv. p. 635. _Pliny_ also mentions this place, _Hist. Nat_. lib. v. cap. 31. Near this place was the mouth of the famous river _Maeander_. _CAME TO MILETUS._] A celebrated city in the p

OVER AGAINST CHIOS - Opposite to. Into the neighborhood of; or near to it. Chios, called also Coos, is an island in the Archipelago, between Lesbos and Samos. It is on the coast of Asia Minor, and is now called Scio. It will long be remembered as the seat of a dreadful massacre of almost all its inhabitants by the Turks in 1823. AT SAMOS - This was also an island of the Archipelago, lying off the coast of Lydia, from which it is separated by a narrow strait. These islands were celebrated among the ancients for their extraordinary wines. TROGYLLIUM - This was the name of a town and promontory of Ionia in Asia Minor, between Ephesus and the mouth of the river Meander, opposite to Samos. The promontory is a spur of Mount Mycale. MILETUS - Called also Mileturn. It was a city and seaport, and the ancient capital of Ionia.

EXPOSITION ACTS 20:1 _Having sent for_ …_ and exhorted _for _called unto him, _A.V. and T.R.; _took leave of them, and departed _for _and embraced them, and departed, _A.V. DEPARTED FOR TO GO INTO MACEDONIA. This was St. Paul's purpose, as he had written to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 16:5) from Ephesus. He judged it wise, not only with a view to his own safety and that of his companions, but also for the rest and quiet of the Ephesian Church, to take advantage of the lull in the popular storm, and withdraw into quiet waters before any fresh outbreak occurred. Aquila and Priscilla seem to have left Ephesus about the same time, or soon after, since the Epistle to the Romans found them again at Rome ...

AND WE SAILED THENCE,.... From Mitylene: AND CAME THE NEXT DAY OVER AGAINST CHIOS; which, according to R. Benjamin Tudelensis b, was three days' sail from Mitylene; according to Pliny c it was sixty five miles from it, and is an island in the Icarian or Aegean sea, and lies between Lesbos and Samos, next mentioned; and has its name from the nymph Chione, so called from the exceeding whiteness of her skin, as snow: it was famous for marble; from hence came the best mastic, and good figs, and the wine called malmsey wine d. And of this place Jerom says e, Chios, an island before Bithynia, whose name in the Syriac language signifies "mastic", because that mastic grows there; some add, he called it "Chia" from Chione the nymph: the reason of its name, as Pausanias f relates, was this; Neptune coming into a desert island, had carnal knowledge of a nymph, and in the time of her travail, a sno...

ACTS 20:15 th|/ de, (2) {B} The information contained in the longer text is, as Ramsay points out, “in itself highly probable, for the promontory of Trogyllian or Trogylia projects far out between Samos and Miletus, and the little coasting vessel would naturally touch there, perhaps becalmed, or for some other reason.” 366 Whether the words were present originally and later accidentally fell out of some texts (or were stricken out deliberately in the interests of the rhythm of the sentence, as Weiss supposed), or whether they were inserted by the Western reviser who thought that the run from Samos to Miletus was too long, it is difficult to decide. Chiefly because of superior external attestation, a majority of the Committee preferred the shorter text. -------------------------...

CHAPTER 20 __ 1. Paul in Macedonia (Acts 20:1). 2. His abode in Greece, the visit to Troas and what transpired there (Acts 20:3). 3. The journey from Troas to Miletus (Acts 20:13). 4. The farewell to the Ephesian Elders (Acts 20:17). The record before us is very brief. Some have thought the reason is the fact that the Apostle had turned aside from His given ministry, and therefore the Holy Spirit had nothing to report. We believe that this is correct. The object of the Spirit of God is now to lead us rapidly forward to the last visit of the Apostle to Jerusalem, therefore much is passed over in the untiring s

TROAS TO MILETUS. In the Armenian _Catena_ we read: But Luke and those with me came on the vessel; words which, if we were sure of their really being in the journal, would show that Luke was not its author. Preuschen thinks the original text was, But I, Luke, and those with me, the present text being grammatically impossible, and the emendation in the Armenian easy. ACTS 20:13. ASSOS, about twelve miles from Troas by land, on a hilly road. A ship has to round Cape Lekton. The Gr. does not compel us to think that Paul walked the distance; he may have ridden. Acts 20:14. Mitylene, the capital of Lesbos, is not far from Assos. For Chios and Samos, see EBi, HDB. Acts 20:15. The call at Trogylli

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