272, and also Alford, in loco.—rhv ἐκκ. :
the Church at Jerusalem may be fairly regarded as indicated, the ἐκκ. κατ᾽
ἐξοχὴν: ‘“primariam, ex qua propagate sunt relique,” Bengel. If St. Luke had meant the Christians in Czsarea, he
would probably have said that Paul
saluted the brethren or the disciples, cf.
xxiv. 7 (see Belser, u.'s., p. go). This visit of St. Paul to Jerusalem would pro-
bably be his fourth, ix. 26, xi. 30 (xii. 25),
xv. 4, and if he went on this fourth occa-
sion to complete a vow, this fact alone, would prove that the visit was not want-
ing in an object: see however note on
νετ. 1δ.--ἄσπασ.: the word indicates a
short stay. Blass interprets that the
Apostle went up from the harbour to the
city of Czsarea, and then ‘‘ went down
to Antioch”. But Ramsay, p. 264, urges
that it is impossible to use the term
κατέβη of a journey from the coast town
Cesarea to the inland city Antioch; on
the contrary, one regularly ‘“‘ goes down”’
to a coast town, xiii. 4, xiv. 25, xvi. 8, etc.
At the Syrian Antioch, the mother of the
Gentile churches, St. Paul would find a
welcome after his second journey, as after
his first—this so far as we know was his
last visit to a place which was now no
longer an effective centre for the Apostle’s
work, or for the supervision of his new
churches.
Ver. 23. ποιήσας χρόνον twa: St. Paul would naturally have spent some time in a place so associated with the origin of Gentile Christianity, and with his own labours, the starting place of each of his missionary journeys ; on the phrase in St. Luke see Friedrich, cf.
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