Then[And] the Spirit said unto Philip i.e. by a prompting from within.

Go near, and join thyself to this chariot No doubt this royal treasurer had a numerous retinue, and a single traveller on a desert road would be doing what was natural in attaching himself to a train of people who were journeying in the same direction. Philip would therefore be able to approach and hear what was read without being deemed an intruder.

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