2—3.
ὄντος σὺν ἡμῖν ᾿Αριστάρχου Μακεδόνος Θεσσαλονικέως.
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3- τῇ τε
ἑτέρᾳ κατήχθηµεν εἰς Σιδῶνα" φιλανθρώπως τε ὁ Ιούλιος τῷ Παύλῳ
χρησάµενος, ἐπέτρεψε πρὸς φίλους ' πορευθέντα ἐπιμελείας τυχεῖν.
1 Tisch., W.H., Weiss, Wendt read πορευθεντι with NAB 13, 36, 68.
Blass in
B text follows Flor. according to which Paul’s friends come to him, “ permisit amicis qui veniebant (ad eum) uti curam ejus agerent”’.
20, 1899, that reference is here made to one of the five cohorts of Czsareans and Sebasteni mentioned by Josephus (for references see Fewish People, div. i., vol. ii., p. 53, E.T., and Schmiedel, Encyclop. Biblica, i., 900, 1899), and therefore σπεῖρα Σεβαστηνῶν; but he maintains that this same cohort was distinguished by the title Augusta from the other four cohorts, and that the writer of Acts is rendering this title in the word Σεβαστή (see also below). It is possible (as Wendt admits, although he prefers Schiirer’s view, 1899) that Julius might have be- longed to the cohors Augusta, cf.C.I.L., iil., 66, 83, Augustiani, Suet., Nevo, 25, Augustani, Tac., Ann., xiv., 15, etc. (Bel- ser, Beitrige, p. 154, Knabenbauer, p. 425), a select number of Roman knights who formed a kind of body-guard for the emperor, instituted about 59 a.D., and that he may have been in Czsarea on some temporary special duty; but on the other hand see Page’s note, in loco (¢f. note on x. 1). Grimm-Thayer, sub υ. Σεβαστός (2), describes it as (an adj.) a title of honour given to certain legions, or cohorts, or battalions, for ‘‘ valour ’’: ‘‘ Ala Augusta ob virtutem appellata,” C. I. L., vii., 340, 341, 344, but there is no inscriptional proof that this title was given to any Cesarean cohort; see “ Augustan Band” (Barnes), Hastings’ B.D., and Wendt can only refer to the bestowal of the title as “ probable”’. Ver. 2. πλοίῳ ᾿Αδραμ.: a boat which belonged to Adramyttium in Mysia, in the Roman province Asia, situated at the top of the gulf Sinus Adramytienus, to which it gives its name (Ramsay, Hastings’ B.D., sub v.). It was of considerable importance as a seaport and commercial centre, and under Roman rule it was the metropolis of the north-west district of Asia. Not to be confounded as by Grotius and others with Adrumetum on the north coast of Africa. For the spelling see critical note.—péAdovrss ° the usual route to Rome would have been by way of Alexandria, cf. the route taken by Titus from Judza to the capi- tal, Suet., Tit.,5. But apparently there was no ship sufficiently large at hand.
From some of the great harbours of the Asian coast the centurion might have passed to Italy, or probably from Adra- myttium (if the ship was going home) he intended to go to Neapolis, and take the great high road to Rome, if no ship could be found in the Asian harbours so late in the season.—rovs κατὰ τὴν A. τόπους: “to sail by the coasts of Asia,” A.V.; but with eis after πλεῖν see criti- cal note, “to sail unto the places on the coast of Asia,” R.V., cf. for the phrase, xi. 1, Polyb., i., 3, 6. In xvi. 3 τόποι is similarly used. See J. Smith’s note, u.s., p. 63.—avny., see above on xili, 13; in the preceding verse we have the corresponding nautical term κατά- Ὑεσθαι, to come to land.—Apior., cf. xix. 39, xxi. 4. Perhaps the expression σὺν ἡμῖν may mean that he was with them, but only for a time, not being actually one of them, i.e., of Paul’s company; he may have gone in the Adramyttian ship on his way to his native home, and left Paul at Myra. On the other hand, Col. iv. 10, he is named as one of Paul’s companions in Rome, and as his ‘ fellow-prisoner,”’ see Salmon, Introd., p. 383. Whether he made the journey as an actual fellow-prisoner with Paul cannot be proved, although Col., u. 5. (Philem. ver. 24), may point to it, see Lightfoot, Philippians, 35, 36, Lewin, St. Paul, ti. 183; ‘one Aristarchus,” A.V., as if otherwise unknown; R.V. gives simply his name. Jingst refers Μακεδ. Θεσσ. to his Redactor.