Acts 28:12

καταχ.: “touching at,” R.V., Ramsay, cf. Acts 27:3. We are not told that St. Paul landed, but the local tradition makes him the founder of the Sicilian Church, C. and H., p. 663, small edit. Συρ.: (Siragosa) about 100 miles distant from Malta, the capital of Sicily, and a Roman colony; in a mercantile city St. Paul would find countrymen and Jewish proselytes; it was moreover a city of great historical interest, and a usual stopping-place for Alexandrian ships on their voyage to Italy; see C. and H., p. 662, u. s., and notices in Strabo, vi., p. 270 (but see also Grimm-Thayer, sub v., Συρ.); Cicero, Verr., iv., 53; Pliny, N.H., iii., 8, and B.D., sub v. For accentuation cf. also Grimm-Thayer. τρεῖς ἡμέρας : probably to wait for a favouring breeze from the south. ἐπεμείναμεν : with accusative of time, cf. Acts 10:48; Acts 21:4; Acts 21:10; Acts 28:14 below, 1 Corinthians 16:7.