Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Acts 16:11
Samothracia; an island so called, because the inhabitants came partly out of Thrace, and partly from Samos. This Neapolis was a city in the confines of Thrace and Macedonia.
Samothracia; an island so called, because the inhabitants came partly out of Thrace, and partly from Samos. This Neapolis was a city in the confines of Thrace and Macedonia.
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Verse Acts 16:11. _LOOSING FROM TROAS_] Setting sail from this place. _WITH A STRAIGHT COURSE TO SAMOTHRACIA_] This was an island of the AEgean Sea, contiguous to _Thrace_, and hence called _Samothra...
LOOSING FROM TROAS - Setting sail from this place. TO SAMOTHRACIA - This was an island in the Aegean Sea not far from Thrace. It was populated by inhabitants from Samos and from Thrace, and hence cal...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. In Derbe and Lystra again. Timotheus (Acts 16:1)._ 2. The Preaching forbidden in Asia (Acts 16:6). 3. The Vision of the Man from Macedonia (Acts 16:9). 4. The Gospel in Europe ...
PHILIPPI. LYDIA. The voyage from Troas to Samothrace was past Tenedos and Imbros, and Samothrace was about halfway. The voyage back took five days (Acts 20:6); this voyage only two, the wind being fav...
When we had set sail from Troas we had a straight run to Samothrace. On the next day we reached Neapolis and from there we came to Philippi which is the chief city of that section of Macedonia and a R...
A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
LOOSING. See note on Acts 13:13. CAME, &C. = ran direct. Greek. _euthudromeo._ Only here and Acts 21:1. i.e. ran before the wind. SAMOTHRACIA. The highest in elevation of the northern AEgean islands...
_Samothracia_ This island lies in the north of the Aegean Sea, opposite to that part of the Thracian coast at which the river Hebrus empties itself. _Neapolis_ The port of Philippi. This place is gen...
ΣΑΜΟΘΡΆΙΚΗΝ, _Samothrace_. This island lies in the north of the Aegean Sea, opposite to that part of the Thracian coast at which the river Hebrus empties itself. ΝΈΑΝ ΠΌΛΙΝ, _Neapolis_, the port of P...
Acts 16:1-12. PAUL REVISITS DERBE AND LYSTRA, CHOOSES TIMOTHY FOR A COMPANION IN HIS MISSION, AND CIRCUMCISES HIM. THEY PASS THROUGH PHRYGIA AND GALATIA, AND COME INTO MYSIA AND TO TROAS. BY A VISION...
_THE CALL PAUL RECEIVED TO COME TO MACEDONIA ACTS 16:6-12:_ The Holy Spirit did not allow the missionaries to go to Asia, or to Bithynia. God had chosen to send His servants to Macedonia. The gospel w...
ΆΝΑΧΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. pass. part. (temp.) от_ ΑΝΆΓΩ (G321) подводить к чему-л.; _pass._ ставить парус, ΕΎΘΥΔΡΟΜΉΣΑΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΎΘΥΔΡΟΜΈΩ (G2113) бежать прямо по курсу; имеется в виду, что они...
SAMOTHRACIA, &C.— An island in the AEgean sea, near the Hellespont: _Neapolis_ was a city of Macedonia. Sailing from thence up the river _Strymon,_ they came to Philippi, which was a city or town of t...
WHILE IN THE ABOVE STATED REGIONS THEY WERE FORBIDDEN BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO SPEAK THE WORD IN ASIA. THEY PASSED THROUGH THE PRO-VINCE OF MYSIA AND ASSAYED TO GO INTO THE PROVINCE OF BITHYNIA BUT THEY...
11, 12. An opportunity was offered without delay, for the apostolic company to make the contemplated voyage to Macedonia. (11) "_Therefore, setting sail from Troas, we ran by a straight course to Samo...
Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis; THEREFORE LOOSING FROM TROAS, WE CAME WITH A STRAIGHT COURSE, [ euthudromeesamen (G2113)]...
40 Silas was almost necessary as a companion for Paul. The decrees provided that they should be delivered by both Barnabas and Paul, while Judas and Silas were to confirm them by word of mouth. Now th...
SAMOTHRACIA] an island half-way between Troas and Neapolis. Neapolis] the port of Philippi....
ST. PAUL IN EUROPE 1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated the lad in the religion of Israel, tho...
Journey into Europe, Philippi. 6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia.' At Lystra (Acts 16:6) they received a...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 TIMOTHY WORKS WITH PAUL AND SILAS, 16:1-5 V1 Paul went to Derbe and then he went to Lystra. A *Christian called Timothy lived there. Timothy...
WE CAME WITH A STRAIGHT COURSE TO SAMOTHRACIA. — Their course lay to the north-west, and, probably, after the manner of the navigation of the time, they put into harbour each night; and the historian,...
ἀναχθέντες, see on Acts 13:13. εὐθυδρομήσαμεν : only in Acts here and in Acts 21:1, nowhere else in N.T., not in LXX or Apocrypha but used by Philo, _cf._ St. Luke's true Greek feeling for the sea, Ra...
GUIDED TO NEW FIELDS Acts 16:1 Paul had a wonderful influence over young men. Timothy, Titus, and Mark bore his impress. When circumcision was insisted upon, as in the previous chapter, no one oppose...
Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with i...
The Macedonian Call Just west of the cities in south Galatia was the Roman province of Asia. At this time, Luke says Paul was forbidden by the Holy Spirit to enter that region to teach. This might hav...
Samothracia is a large island far up near the northern coast of the Aegean Sea, while Neapolis is in Thrace on the European shore, whither the evangelistic quarto disembark....
Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, (7) After they were come to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithy...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
− 11.This history doth, as it were in a glass, show how sharply the Lord did exercise the faith and patience of his, by bringing them in great straits which they could not have overcome unless they ha...
There is perhaps no example of this more remarkable than that which Paul does with regard to Timothy. He uses circumcision in all liberty to set aside Jewish prejudice. It is very doubtful whether, ac...
THEREFORE LOOSING FROM TROAS,.... Or setting sail from thence, which, as before observed, was the Hellespont; which was a narrow sea that divided Asia from Europe, now called Stretto di Gallipoii, or...
Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next _day_ to Neapolis; Ver. 11. _We came with a straight course_] Or with a speedy course. The straight way is th...
_Therefore, loosing from Troas, we came to Samothracia_ An island in these seas, famous for being the seat of certain religious mysteries, in equal estimation with those called Eleusinian. But it does...
SAMOTHRACIA; an island in the north part of the Aegean sea. NEAPOLIS; a seaport of Macedonia....
THEREFORE LOOSING FROM TROAS, WE CAME WITH A STRAIGHT COURSE TO SAMOTHRACIA AND THE NEXT DAY TO NEAPOLIS,...
PAUL AND HIS COMPANIONS AT PHILIPPI The voyage to Philippi:...
Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visit...
THEREFORE, SAILING FROM TROAS, WE RAN A STRAIGHT COURSE TO SAMOTHRACE, AND THE NEXT _DAY_ CAME TO NEAPOLIS, 1. They sailed from Troas and made a straight course to Samothrace. 2. This means, this wa...
"Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made. straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis" "Straight course" "It is. nautical term for sailing before the wind" (Robertson p. 249)....
6-15 The removals of ministers, and the dispensing the means of grace by them, are in particular under Divine conduct and direction. We must follow Providence: and whatever we seek to do, if that suf...
11, 12. An opportunity was offered without delay, for the apostolic company to make the contemplated voyage to Macedonia. (11) "_ Therefore, setting sail from Troas, we ran by a straight course to Sam...
Acts 16:11 Therefore G3767 sailing G321 (G5685) from G575 Troas G5174 course G2113 (G5656) to G1519 Samothrace...
‘Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a R...
THE MISSION TO EUROPE (16:6-19:20). Paul's plans now seemed to begin to go awry. All doors seemed to be closing to him as in one way or another he was first hindered from going one way, and then anoth...
Acts 16:11. WE CAME WITH A STRAIGHT COURSE TO SAMOTHRACIA, or ‘we ran with a straight course.' The same word occurs again in the same sense in chap. Acts 21:1. Luke, observes Hackett, observes almost...
SETTING SAIL (αναχθεντες). Same word in Acts 13:13 which see.WE MADE A STRAIGHT COURSE (ευθυδρομησαμεν). First aorist active indicative of compound verb ευθυδρομεω (in Philo) from adjective ευθυδρ...
Acts 16:9. _And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us._ Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts of...
CONTENTS: Paul finds Timothy. Paul's Macedonian vision. The first convert in Europe. Demons cast out of a damsel. Paul and Silas beaten. Conversion of the Philippian jailer. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
Acts 16:1. _Then came he to Lystra,_ as in Acts 14:6. In their former labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timothy gro...
AND SAILED STRAIGHT ACROSS. Samothrace is an island at the half-way point. Neapolis is the seaport, just a few miles from Philippi. A Roman colony. Emperor Augustus had planted this colony. It was a m...
_And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas and a vision appeared to Paul in the night._ PAUL’S VISION AT TROAS I. Its benevolence. What is the gospel? Help for man. It helps man-- 1. To know God...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:11 Philippi was the first Macedonian city in which Paul witnessed. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 16:12. THE CHIEF CITY OF THAT PART OF MACEDONIA, and A COLONY.—Better, _a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a colony—i.e._, of Rome. Macedonia was divided into four...
EXPOSITION ACTS 16:1 _And he came also _for _then came he, _A.V._ _and T.R.; _to Lystra _for _Lystra, _A.V._; Timothy _for _Timotheus, _A.V._; of a Jewess _for _of a certain woman which was a Jewess,...
We remember at the end of our study last week there arose a contention between Paul and Barnabas who had been close companions on the first missionary venture of the church. But because Barnabas was i...
Came with a straight course [ε υ θ υ δ ρ ο μ η σ α μ ε ν]. Lit., we ran a straight course. A nautical term for sailing before the wind....
We ran with a straight course — Which increased their confidence that God had called them....
A farther account is here given of St. Paul's travels to preach the gospel; he departs from Troas to Samothracia, from thence to Neapolis, and thence to Philippi, the chief city of Macedonia. Here on...