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Gill, John, 1697-1771 • SECTION 316

Ac 20:4

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Ac 20:4

and came unto Caesarea; not Caesarea Philippi, mentioned in Mt 16:13 but that Caesarea which was formerly called Strato's tower, and was a very good sea port; see Ac 8:40.

and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist; not a writer of a Gospel, but a preacher of the Gospel, and perhaps not an ordinary one, but was one of those spoken of in Eph 4:11 which was an office inferior to an apostle, and yet above an ordinary pastor and teacher; this man, very likely, was the same that taught in Samaria, and baptized the eunuch, and who after that settled at Caesarea; see Ac 8:40.

which was one of the seven; of the seven deacons of the church at Jerusalem, Ac 6:5 and abode with him; so long as they continued at Caesarea.

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