Act 28 | TSK | STEP | Paul, after his shipwreck, is kindly entertained of the barbarians. The viper on his hand hurts him not. He heals many diseases in the island. They depart towards Rome. He declares to the Jews the cause of his coming. After his preaching some were persuaded, and some believed not. Yet he preaches there two years. the island.

Syracuse.Syracuse was the capital of Sicily, situated on the eastern side of the island, 72 miles S. by E. of Messina, and about 112 of Palermo. In its ancient state of splendour it was 22® in extent, according to Strabo; and such was its opulence, that when the Romans took it, they found more riches than they did at Carthage.

Rhegium.Rhegium, now Reggio, was a maritime city and promontory in Italy, opposite Messina.

the south.

27:13

Puteoli.Puteoli, now Puzzuoli, is an ancient sea-port of Campania, in the kingdom of Naples, about eight miles S. W. of that city, standing upon a hill in a creek opposite to Baiae.

we found.

9:42,43; 19:1; 21:4,7,8; Ps 119:63; Mt 10:11

and were.

20:6; Ge 7:4; 8:10-12

when.

10:25; 21:5; Ex 4:14; Joh 12:13; Ro 15:24; Ga 4:14; Heb 13:3

3Jo 1:6-8

Appii forum.Appii Forum, now Borgo Longo, was an ancient city of the Volsci, fifty miles S. of Rome.

The three taverns.The Three Taverns was a place in the Appian Way, thirty miles from Rome.

he thanked.

Jos 1:6,7,9; 1Sa 30:6; Ps 27:14; 1Co 12:21,22; 2Co 2:14; 7:5-7

1Th 3:7

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

though.

23:1-11; 24:10-16; 25:8,10; Ge 40:15

was.

21:33-40; 23:33

22:24,25,30; 24:10,22; 25:7,8; 26:31

I was.

25:10-12,21,25; 26:32

not.

Ro 12:19-21; 1Pe 2:22,23

this cause.

17; 10:29,33

for the.

23:6; 24:15; 26:6,7

this chain.That is, the chain with which he was bound to the "soldier that kept him;" (ver. 16;) a mode of custody which Dr. Lardner has shown was in use among the Romans. It is in exact conformity, therefore, with the truth of St. Paul's situation at this time, that he declares himself to be "an ambassador in a chain," [en halusis ,] (Eph 6:20;) and the exactness is the more remarkable, as [halusis ,] a chain is no where used in the singular number to express any other kind of custody.

26:29; Eph 3:1; 4:1; 6:20; Php 1:13; Col 4:18; 2Ti 1:10; 2:9

Phm 1:10,13

We.

Ex 11:7; Isa 41:11; 50:8; 54:17

for.

16:20,21; 17:6,7; 24:5,6,14; Lu 2:34; 1Pe 2:12; 3:16; 4:14-16

sect.

5:17; 15:5; 26:5; 1Co 11:19; *marg:

there came.

Phm 1:2

he expounded.

17:2,3; 18:4,28; 19:8; 26:22,23

both.

26:6,22; Lu 24:26,27,44

from.

20:9-11; Joh 4:34

13:48-50; 14:4; 17:4,5; 18:6-8; 19:8,9; Ro 3:3; 11:4-6

agreed.

well.

Mt 15:7; Mr 7:6; 2Pe 1:21

Go.

Isa 6:9,10; Eze 12:2; Mt 13:14,15; Mr 4:12; Lu 8:10; Joh 12:38-40

Ro 11:8-10

Hearing.

De 29:4; Ps 81:11,12; Isa 29:10,14; 42:19,20; 66:4; Jer 5:21

Eze 3:6,7; 12:2; Mr 8:17,18; Lu 24:25,45; 2Co 4:4-6

it known.

2:14; 4:10; 13:38; Eze 36:32

the salvation.

Ps 98:2,3; Isa 49:6; 52:10; La 3:26; Lu 2:30-32; 3:6

sent.

11:18; 13:46,47; 14:27; 15:14,17; 18:6; 22:21; 26:17,18

Mt 21:41-43; Ro 3:29,30; 4:11; 11:11; 15:8-16

great reasoning.

25; Mt 10:34-36; Lu 12:51; Joh 7:40-53

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.