Acts 13:4

μὲν οὖν answered by δέ in Acts 13:5, so Weiss and Rendall, Appendix on μὲν οὖν, p. 161. Page takes διελ. δέ in Acts 13:6 as the antithesis, see his note on Acts 2:41. ἐκπεμφ., cf. Acts 13:2; only in N.T. in Acts 17:10, cf. 2 Samuel 19:31, where it denotes personal conduct. Mr. Rendall's note takes the verb here also of the personal presence of the Holy Spirit conducting the Apostles on their way. κατῆλθον : “went down,” R.V., of a journey from the interior to the coast, cf. Acts 15:30; Vulgate, abierunt, and so A.V. “departed,” which fails to give the full force of the word. Σελεύκειαν : the port of Antioch, built by the first Seleucus, about sixteen miles from the city on the Orontes; Seleucia ad mare and ἡ ἐν Πιερίᾳ to distinguish it from other places bearing the same name, see Wetstein for references to it. On its mention here and St. Luke's custom see Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 70. Κύπρον, cf. Acts 4:36. Although not expressly stated, we may well believe that the place was divinely intimated. But it was natural for more reasons than one that the missionaries should make for Cyprus. Barnabas was a Cypriote, and the nearness of Cyprus to Syria and its productive copper mines had attracted a large settlement of Jews, cf. also Acts 11:19-20, and the Church at Antioch moreover owed its birth in part to the Cypriotes, Acts 11:20 (Acts 21:16).