The scheme is not alluded to in the letter to the Galatian Churches : but it seems to have been inaugu- rated there by oral instructions during the third visit (I Cor. XVI 1). The mission of Timothy and of Titus in 56 doubtless helped to carry it out in Europe. Luke evidently took it up with special zeal, and he was from an early date selected as one of the adminis- trators who were to carry it to Jerusalem (II Cor.
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VIII 19). In the list, v. 4, Luke omits his own name, but suggests his presence by his familiar device. No representative from Achaia is on the list ; but perhaps we may understand that the Corinthians had asked Paul himself to bear their contribution, the amount of which he praises (II Cor. IX 2).
In v. 4 we have probably a case like XVI 19 f, in which the authority hesitated between two constructions, and left an unfinished sentence containing elements of two forms. The facts were probably as stated in our rendering ; and it would lead too far to discuss the sentence, which perhaps never received the author's final revision.
3. THE VOYAGE TO TROAS. (XX 6) WE SAILED AWAY FROM PHILIPPI AFTER THE DAYS OF UN- LEAVENED BREAD, AND CAME UNTO THEM TO TROAS IN FIVE DAYS ; AND THERE WE TARRIED SEVEN DAYS. (7) AND ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK WHEN WE WERE GATHERED TOGETHER TO BREAK BREAD, PAUL DISCOURSED WITH THEM, BEING ABOUT TO DE- PART ON THE MORROW ; AND HE PROLONGED HIS SPEECH UNTIL MIDNIGHT. . . . (13) AND WE, GOING BEFORE TO THE SHIP, SET SAIL FOR ASSOS.
In A.D. 57 Passover fell on Thursday, April 7. The company left Philippi on the morning of Friday, April 15, and the journey to Troas lasted till the fifth day, Tuesday, April 19. In Troas they stayed seven days, the first of which was April 19, and the last, Monday, April 25. Luke's rule is to state first the whole period of residence, and then some details of the residence (see pp. 153, 256, and XIX 10). On the Sunday evening just before the start, the whole congregation
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at Troas met for the Agape ; religious services were conducted late into the night ; and in the early morn- ing of Monday the party went on board and set sail, fn A.D. 56, 58, 59, the incidence of Passover is not reconcilable with Luke's statistics ; as is apparent from the attempts that have been made to torture his words into agreement. (Luke now rejoins Paul, p. 201.)
4. EUTYCHUS. (XX 7) AND UPON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, WHEN WE WERE GATHERED TOGETHER TO BREAK BREAD, PAUL DISCOURSED TO THEM, IN- TENDING TO GO AWAY ON THE MORROW ; AND HE PROLONGED HIS SPEECH UNTIL MIDNIGHT. (8) AND THERE WERE MANY LIGHTS IN THE UPPER CHAMBER, WHERE WE WERE GATHERED TOGETHER. (9) AND THERE SAT IN THE WINDOW A CERTAIN YOUNG MAN NAMED EUTYCHUS, WHO WAS GRADUALLY OPPRESSED BY SLEEP AS PAUL EXTENDED HIS DISCOURSE FURTHER, AND BEING BORNE DOWN BY HIS SLEEP HE FELL FROM THE THIRD STORY TO THE GROUND, AND WAS LIFTED UP DEAD, (io) AND PAUL WENT DOWN AND FELL ON HIM, AND EMBRACING HIM SAID, "MAKE YE NO ADO; FOR HIS LIFE IS IN HIM". (il) AND HE WENT UP, AND BROKE BREAD AND ATE, AND TALKED WITH THEM A LONG WHILE, EVEN TILL BREAK OF DAY; AND THUS HE DEPARTED. (12) AND THEY BROUGHT THE LAD ALIVE, AND WERE NOT A LITTLE COMFORTED. (13) BUT WE, GOING BEFORE TO THE SHIP, SET SAIL FOR ASSOS, INTENDING TO TAKE PAUL ON BOARD FROM THENCE ; FOR SO HE HAD ARRANGED, INTENDING HIMSELF TO GO BY LAND.
In this case the author vouches that Eutychus was dead, implying apparently that, as a physician, he had satis-