e Som? have thought that their laying in wait » might be to rob him of che ColleRions which he carried with him for the Saints at Feruſalem ; bat molt likely it was rather to take away hislife, whom they hated for his zeal and diligence in the Goſpel. 7 Shunning their treachery and plotting againſt him. He would not tempt God by running into dangers, though his cauſe were never ſo good. g Being the {ame way that he came to Corint#.
4 And there þ accompanied him into Aſia i, Sopater of k Berza ; and of the Thetflalonians/, Ariſtarchusand Secundus ; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus m ; and of Aſia *, Tychicus and Trophimus.
þ Their Names are ſet down, as being men called and known at that time in the Churches; and that what they did for this holy Apo- tle, might be remembred inall Ages. # Who ir called allo So/7pater, Rom. 16. 16. It is added in ſome Cipies, that he was the Son of Pyrrius ; which in Greek is the ſame with Rutrs in Latin. k A City ot Macedonia, Chap. 17. 10. 1Of whom, Chap. 19. 29. asallo of the others, mention hath been formerly made. mm Of Epheſus, a City in ſia. Tychicus ; of whom, Epheſ. 6. 21, Coloſ. 4. 7. 2 Tim. 4. 12. and of Trephimm we read, Chap. 21.29. 2 Tim. 4. 20. Thele ſeem to have been the Apoſtiesor Meſlengers of the Churches ſpoken of, 2 Cor. 8. 23. in the number of whom Sr. Luke is to be reckoned, but being the Penman of this Book, he declines mentioning of himſelf by name ; but his praile will be for ever in the Goſpel, 2 Cor. 8.18, 15G,
5 Theſe going before, tarried for z'us at o Troas.
» Whereby it appears, that St. Lyke was one of them that accom- panied St. Paz!, though neither here not elſewhere doth he expreſs his own Name. o Either the City of Troy, or the Countrey there- abont fo called.
6 And we failed away p from Philippi,after the q days | of unieavened bread, and came unto them to Troasin
five days, where we abode ſeven days.
p Where they e-nbarked, and failed on the River firſt, then on the Sea. 9 Though St. Paul would not have the Genti/z-Converts to be burdened with the Ceremonial Law, yer that he might not offend the Jews, for a while he complied with their Rites, Chap 18 21. they being indeed dead, butnot yet deadly ; and therefore he ſtays his Journey all the time of the Paſſover-ſolemnity, inftrucing them 11the mean while of the Nature and Life of ſuch things.
7 And vpon the r firſt Jay of the week, when the diſciples came together s to * break bread, Paul preached unto them, reaGy to depart on the morrow, and conti-
nued bis ſpeech 7 until midnight.
r This was the day which the Lord had made, it being called from his Reſurre&ion. which was on this day, The Lord's Day, Rey. t. ro. On this day the Diſciples mer, and Chriſt honoured
of thoſe
m—_———,
S o GT 8 | place. The Love-Feaſts being abuſed, were ſoon laid afige. che other muſt continue until the Lord come, 1 Coy, 31. 6 long Sermon indeed ; at leaſt, it would be now thought "i yer we muſt have the ſame Spirit, w- ; Catholick Church. s And there were« many lights in the upper cham ber where they were gathered together. : There being many preſent , and it being in the night, becy,r of the perſecution that the Chriſtians met with. Left they lk = be reproached for doing any thing indecently, they by this _—_ expoled themſelves, and all thar was done amongſt them oy , common view and notice of all. w Where 'tis tuppoſed they ry ordinarily meet ; as Chap. 1. 13. 7 ig g And tiere ſat in a window a certain VOung man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep ſleep; pg as Paul was long x preaching, he ſunk » down With fleep, and fell down trom the third loft, and was taken
up dead.
x Diſcourſing and arguing : For it does not ſeem to haye been continued ſpeech, by the word here uſed. » This fall is thoughthy ſome to have been cauſed by Satan (through Gods permiſſion ) hy he might the more diſturb Paul, and hinder, or put an end ;, li
ermon : which by the enſuing Miracle, God turned toa quite c0q. trary effeCt. to And Paul went down, and z fell on him, andey. bracing 4m, ſaid, Trouble not your ſelves; for; hi; life is in him.
z As Elijah on the Widow of Zareptah's dead Son, 1 King; (7 21, and Eliſhs on the Shunamite's Son, 2 Kings 4. 34. 2 Nor but that he had been really dead ; as ver. 9. but that upon th2 Apoſhe; prayer (which is to be underſtood, though it is not here expre;4) God had reſtored the young man to life : or howſoever, becayj: 5: Paul knew infallibly he ſhould preſently be reſtored to life, «27 whilſt he ſpake,
11 When he therefore was come up again, and had 5 broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while,
even c til] break of day, fo d he departed;
6 Either in the Euchariſt ; as ver. 7. or in taking his ordinay te. fection and breakfaſt. This was of long continuance and Ipeaksthe patience and zeal of Chriſtians in thoſe times, and will rilz yp in Judgment againſt a carelels and negligent Generation. &d Going thir part of his Journey on foot, as the reſt of his company did yo by Yea, aSVer. 13.
iz And they brought the young man alive, and were
not a little e comforted.
e They rejoyced not only thatthe young man was reſtored tolif, but that by this means the Goſpel was atteſted co, and many cone firmed in the beltf offir. |
13 And we went before to ſhip, and failed unto
f Aſlos, there intending to take in Paul : For ſo had hs
appointed, minding g himſelf ro go afoor.
7 A City in Myfa, called alſo Apollonia, not far from Trox either by water or land. Paul's going on foot might be the rather, thit ſo he might have the better opportunity to ſcatter the ſeed of the Goſpel as he went, going through Towns and - Villages, and con. verling {till with ſome or other, more than in Sea-journeys can be expeCted. So greedy of winning Souls to Chriſt was chis holy man, that he ordered every ſtep, as near as he could, towards ic, But St. Paul might deſire to go alone thus on foor, that he mightenjoy more free and full communion with God, having only God and his own ſoul to converſe with.
14 And when he met with us at Afſſos, we took him In, andcame to þ Mitylene. h An lfland ; as alſo a City Sea. Some think the Iſland is called Lesbos, ts.
but
1 A Md : n
or We are not Member, of th; : ia,
in it ſo called, in the £zea in which this Miry;cne
15 And we failedthence,and came the nex: 4; over againſt : Chios ; And the next day we arrived at & vam6s, andrarried at / Trogyllium ; And the next day we cams