barbarous. ver. 4; Ro 1:14; 1Co 14:11; Col 3:11;
shewed. 27:3; Le 19:18,34; Pr 24:11,12; Mt 10:42; Lu 10:30-37; Ro 2:14,15,27; Heb 13:2;
because. Ezr 10:9; Joh 18:18; 2Co 11:27;
came. Job 20:16; Isa 30:6; 41:24; 59:5; Mt 3:7; 12:34; 23:33;
fastened. ver. 4; Am 5:19; 2Co 6:9; 11:23;
barbarians. ver. 2;
beast. ver. 5; Ge 3:1; Isa 13:21,22; 43:20; Zep 2:15;
No doubt. Lu 13:2,4; Joh 7:24; 9:1,2;
a murderer. Ge 4:8-11; 9:5,6; 42:21,22; Nu 35:31-34; Pr 28:17; Isa 26:21; Mt 23:35; 27:25; Re 21:8;
felt. Nu 21:6-9; Ps 91:13; Mr 16:18; Lu 10:19; Joh 3:14,15; Ro 16:20; Re 9:3,4;
said. 12:22; 14:11-13; Mt 21:9; 27:22;
the chief. 13:7; 18:12; 23:24;
who. ver. 2; Mt 10:40,41; Lu 19:6-9;
prayed. 9:40; 1Ki 17:20-22; Jas 5:14-16;
laid. 9:17,18; 19:11,12; Mt 9:18; Mr 6:5; 7:32; 16:18; Lu 4:40; 13:13;
and healed. Mt 10:1,8; Lu 9:1-3; 10:8,9; 1Co 12:9,28;
others. 5:12,15; Mt 4:24; Mr 6:54-56;
honoured. Mt 15:5,6; 1Th 2:6; 1Ti 5:3,4,17,18;
laded. 2Ki 8:9; Ezr 7:27; Mt 6:31-34; 10:8-10; 2Co 8:2-6; 9:5-11; Php 4:11,12,19;
Cir. A.M. 4067. A.D. 63.
whose. Isa 45:20; Jon 1:5,16; 1Co 8:4;
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.
ver. 12;
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;
captain. Ge 37:36; 2Ki 25:8; Jer 40:2;
but. ver. 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;
not. Ro 12:19-21; 1Pe 2:22,23;
this cause. ver. 17; 10:29,33;
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 g1722 halusis g254,] (Eph 6:20;) and the exactness is the more remarkable, as [halusis g254,] 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;
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. ver. 29;
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; ver. 27;
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. ver. 25; Mt 10:34-36; Lu 12:51; Joh 7:40-53;
Paul. St. Paul, after his release, is supposed to have visited Jud�a, 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. ver. 16;
Cir. A.M. 4069. A.D. 65. Preaching. ver. 23; 8:12; 20:25; Mt 4:23; Mr 1:14; Lu 8:1;
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.
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