Act 18:21, 23:11, 25:10-12, 27:1, 24, 28:16, 30-31, Rom 1:15, 15:23-29 | TSK | STEP

I stand.Every procurator represented the emperor in the province over which he presided; and as the seat of government was at Cesarea, St. Paul was before the tribunal where, as a Roman citizen, he ought to be judged.

16:37,38; 22:25-28

as thou.

25; 23:29; 26:31; 28:18; Mt 27:18,23,24; 2Co 4:2

if I.

18:14; Jos 22:22; 1Sa 12:3-5; Job 31:21,38-40; Ps 7:3-5

no man.

16:37; 22:25; 1Th 2:15

I appeal.An appeal to the emperor was the right of a Roman citizen, and was highly respected. The Julian law condemned those magistrates, and others, as violaters of the public peace, who had put to death, tortured, scourged, imprisoned, or condemned any Roman citizen who had appealed to Cesar. This law was so sacred and imperative, that, in the persecution under Trajan, Pliny would not attempt to put to death Roman citizens, who were proved to have turned Christians, but determined to send them to Rome, probably because they had appealed.

10,25; 26:32; 28:19; 1Sa 27:1

unto Cesar shalt.

21; 19:21; 23:11; 26:32; 27:1; 28:16; Ps 76:10; Isa 46:10,11; La 3:37

Da 4:35; Ro 15:28,29; Php 1:12-14,20

Acts 27:1

1 Paul shipping towards Rome,

10 foretells of the danger of the voyage,

11 but is not believed.

14 They are tossed to and fro with tempest;

41 and suffer shipwreck;

44 yet all come safe to land.

when.

19:21; 23:11; 25:12,25; Ge 50:20; Ps 33:11; 76:10; Pr 19:21; La 3:27

Da 4:35; Ro 15:22-29

Italy.Italy is a well-known country of Europe, bounded by the Adriatic or Venetian Gulf on the east, the Tyrrhene or Tuscan Sea on the west, and by the Alps on the north.

10:1; 18:2; Heb 13:24

a centurion.

11,43; 10:22; 21:32; 22:26; 23:17; 24:23; 28:16; Mt 8:5-10; 27:54

Lu 7:2; 23:47

Augustus'.

25:25

Acts 27:24

Fear not.

18:9,10; Ge 15:1; 46:3; 1Ki 17:13; 2Ki 6:16; Isa 41:10-14; 43:1-5

Mt 10:28; Re 1:17

thou.

9:15; 19:21; 23:11; 25:11; Mt 10:18; Joh 11:9; 2Ti 4:16,17; Re 11:5-7

lo.

37; Ge 12:2; 18:23-32; 19:21,22,29; 30:27; 39:5,23; Isa 58:11,12

Mic 5:7; Jas 5:16

Acts 28:16

Rome.Rome, the capital of Italy, and once of the whole world, is situated on the banks of the Tiber, about sixteen miles from the sea; 410 miles S. S .E. of Vienna, 600 S. E. of Paris, 730 E. by N. of Madrid, 760 W. of Constantinople, and 780 S. E. of London.

2:10; 18:2; 19:21; 23:11; Ro 1:7-15; 15:22-29; Re 17:9,18

the centurion.

27:3,31,43

captain.

Ge 37:36; 2Ki 25:8; Jer 40:2

but.

30,31; 24:23; 27:3; Ge 39:21-23

Acts 28:30-31

Paul.St. Paul, after his release, is supposed to have visited Judæa, in the way to which he left Titus at Crete, (Tit 1:5,) and then returned through Syria, Cilicia, Asia Minor, and Greece, to Rome; where, according to primitive tradition, he was beheaded by order of Nero, A.D. 66, at Aquae Saiviae, three miles from Rome, and interred in the Via Ostensis, two miles from the city, where Constantine erected a church.

dwelt.

Cir. A.M. 4069. A.D. 65. Preaching.

23; 8:12; 20:25; Mt 4:23; Mr 1:14; Lu 8:1

and teaching.

5:42; 23:11

with.

4:29,31; Eph 6:19,20; Php 1:14; Col 4:3,4; 2Ti 4:17 CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. The Acts of the Apostles is a most valuable portion of Divine revelation; and, independently of its universal reception in the Christian church, as an authentic and inspired production, it bears the most satisfactory internal evidence of its authenticity and truth. St. Luke's long attendance upon St. Paul, and his having been an eyewitness of many of the facts which he has recorded, independently of his Divine inspiration, render him a most suitable and credible historian; and his medical knowledge, for he is allowed to have been a physician, enabled him both to form a proper judgment of the miraculous cures which were performed by St. Paul, and to give an authentic and circumstantial detail of them. The plainness and simplicity of the narrative are also strong circumstances in its favour. The history of the Acts is one of the most important parts of the Sacred History, for without it neither the Gospels nor Epistles could have been so clearly understood; but by the aid of it the whole scheme of the Christian revelation is set before us in a clear and easy view.

Romans 1:15

so.

12:18; 1Ki 8:18; Mr 14:8; 2Co 8:12

Isa 6:8; Mt 9:38; Joh 4:34; Ac 21:13; 1Co 9:17; 2Co 10:15,16

Romans 15:23-29

and.

32; 1:10-12; 1Th 3:10; 2Ti 1:4

I take.

28; Ac 19:21

Spain.Spain is a large country in the west of Europe, which anciently comprehended both Spain and Portugal, separated from Gaul or France by the Pyrenees, and bounded on every other side by the sea.

and to.

Ac 15:3; 21:5; 2Co 1:16; 3Jo 1:6

if.

1:12; 1Co 16:5-7

filled.Rather, "gratified (or enjoy) your society," as [emplestho] frequently denotes.

with your company. Gr. with you.

26-31; Ac 18:21; 19:21; 20:16,22; 24:17; 1Co 16:1-3; Ga 2:10

it.

Ac 11:27-30; 2Co 8:1-9:15; Ga 6:6-10

the poor.

Pr 14:21,31; 17:5; Zec 11:7,11; Mt 25:40; 26:11; Lu 6:20; 14:13

1Co 16:15; 2Co 9:12; Phm 1:5; Jas 2:5,6