Acts 13:4

αὐτοὶ for οὖτοι with אAB. Vulg. ‘ipsi.’

4. ἐκπεμφθέντες ὑπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, sent forth by the Holy Ghost. This repetition marks the solemn character which St Luke and also his informant attached to this new form which the Christian work was taking.

εἰς Σελεύκειαν, unto Seleucia, which was the seaport of Antioch at the mouth of the river Orontes.

ἀπέπλευσαν εἰς Κύπρον, they sailed to Cyprus. Probably, if not specially directed, the missionary Apostles were induced to take this route because Cyprus was the birthplace of one of them, and there were in the island already many Jews resident, and also some Cypriote Christians (Acts 9:20), who perhaps had been in Jerusalem at the feast of Pentecost among the various nationalities then assembled, and who had, when driven away by persecution, turned their steps homeward and preached Jesus to their fellow countrymen (Acts 9:19).