Ver. 3. τῇ δὲ ἑτέρᾳ: an easy journey to Sidon—distance 60 sea miles (Breu- sing).—katyx.: technical nautical term, opposite of ἀνάγειν in ver. 2, see above. --Φιλανθ. τε ὁ Ιούλιος... χρησ.: “and Julius treated Paul kindly,” R.V., cf. xxvili. 2. Bengel says “ videtur audisse Paulum,” xxv. 32. Hobart, so also Zahn, sees in Φιλανθ., which is peculiar to Luke in N.T., the word a medical man might be likely to use. See also on φιλαν- θρωπία, xxviii. 2, below, but in Dem., 411, Io, we have the phrase Φιλανθ. τινὶ χρῆσθαι, so in Plutarch, and the adverb occurs in 2 Macc. ix. 27, 3 Macc. iii. 20. χρησ. only in Luke and Paul, cf. 2 Cor.
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4. κἀκεῖθεν ἀναχθέντες ὑπεπλεύσαμεν τὴν Κύπρον, διὰ τὸ τοὺς
, ἀνέμους εἶναι ἐναντίους.
5:1 τό τε πέλαγος τὸ κατὰ τὴν Κιλικίαν
καὶ Παμφυλίαν διαπλεύσαντες, κατήλθομεν εἰς Μύρα τῆς Λυκίας.
6. Κάκεὶ εὑρὼν ὁ ἑκατόνταρχος πλοῖον ᾽Αλεξανδρινὸν πλέον ets
τὴν Ιταλίαν, ἐνεβίβασεν ἡμᾶς eis αὐτό: 7. ἐν ἱκαναῖς δὲ ἡμέραις βραδυπλοοῦντες, καὶ pots γενόµενοι κατὰ τὴν Κνίδον, μὴ ὃ προσεῶντος
1 At the beginning of verse Blass in B text, with Flor., reads και peta ταυτα διαπλευσαντες τον Κιλικιον κολπον και το Παμφυλιον πελαγος, and with 137, Syr. H. c*, Flor. adds δι ηµερων δεκαπεντε, which Wendt (1899) seems inclined to
retain, and which is read by Hilg. (1899), W.H. marg.
Mvpa, neut. plur.; in
B Mvppa, 5ο Tisch., W.H., Weiss, but the reading in T.R. is supported by inscrip- tions, Winer-Schmiedel, p. 58, so Hilg., Blass, Wendt; ΝΑ have Λυστραν, and
see further W.H., App., p. 167. 2 Blass accentuates ᾽Αλεξανδρῖνον.
3 Blass corrects, on his own authority, προεωντος for προσ.
xiii, το, in LXX Gen. xxvi. 20.-- πρὸς τοὺς φίλους πορευθέντα: probably with the soldier to whom he was chained, but see also β text, critical note.—ém- µελείας τυχεῖν: “to receive attention,” R.V. margin, cf. Isocr., 113 D. The noun is found in Prov. iii. 8, 1 Macc. xvi. 14, 2 Macc. xi. 23, 3 Macc. v. 1, and also in classical Greek; it was also frequently employed in medical lan- guage for the care bestowed upon the sick, and it may be so here; so Hobart, Zahn, Felten, Vogel, Luckock. St. Luke alone uses the word in the N.T., and he alone uses the verb ἐπιμελεῖσθαι in the sense of caring for the needs of the body, Luke x. 24, 35, another word frequently employed with this meaning by medical writers (Zahn). A delay would be made at Sidon, no doubt, for merchandise to be shipped or unladen. There is no occasion to regard the verse, with Over- beck, as an interpolation ; see Wendt’s note in favour of its retention, p. 543 (1888)).
Ver. 4. ὑπεπλεύσαμεν τὴν Κ.: “we sailed under the lee of Cyprus,” R.V. So Wetstein with whom James Smith is in agreement, {.ε., to the east of the island, as was usual for ships westward bound, to avoid the prevalent west winds. Otherwise the direct course would have been to make for Patara in Lycia across the open sea to the south-west of Cyprus (cf. xxi. 1-3, where Paul makes a direct tun from Patara to the Syrian coast (Ramsay, Goerne)).
Ver. 5. τό τεπέλαγος τὸ κατὰ τὴν K. καὶ Π., διαπλ.: the ship in its northerly course would reach the coast of Cilicia, and then creep slowly along from point to
point along the Cilician and Pamphylian coast, using the local land breezes when possible, and the current constantly running to the westward along the southern coast (Ramsay, J. Smith, Breu- sing). Blass takes πέλαγος as “mare vaste patens’’ and thinks that the ship did not coast along the shore, but J. Smith gives several instances of ships following St. Paul’s route. On the addi- tional reading in B text see critical note.—Muvpa τῆς Λυκίας: two and a half miles from the coast of Lycia; on the spelling see critical notes. On its importance as one of the great har- bours in the corn trade between Egypt and Rome see Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 298, 318, Lewin, Saint Paul, ii., 186, and for later notices Zéckler, in loco. As a good illustration of the voyage of the Adramyttian and Alexandrian ship see Lucian’s dialogue, Πλοῖον ἢ Εὐχαί, 7-9; Ramsay, p. 319; Breusing, 152.