The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2 — Section 142

not pnss the night at Snmoe, but "mnde a nocessity for a rcgnlar opiacopato arnse (s0e ehort run from thence in tho evening to eh. vi. 1-6; ll:iv. 23, etc.). 'frogyllium" (Alford)," tho rocky extremity Ver. 18.-Ye vounelve~ for ye, A.V.; set of the ridge of Mycalo, on tho Ionian coast, foot in for cam6 into, A.V.; wa• for ha1J~ between whioh nnd the eouthern oxtremity been, A.V.; all tl1e time for at all seaJJone, or Sumos the ohnnnel ie bnroly n mile wiclo" A.V. (' Spanker's Commentary'). We oame to Ver. 19.-Lou,lineu for humility, A.V.; Miletus. Anciently tho chief city of lonia, tears for many tears, A.V. anr\ T.R. ; with nnd I!. most powerful mnrHime e.nd com- trials for temptations, A.V.; plot• for lyiwJ morcia.l pince, e.bout twenty-eight miles in wait, A.V. Plots (lmflovl\.a,s); comr, south of Ephesus: though in the time of ver. 3, and note. There is no special a.er Homer it wa.s e. Carino city. In St. Pa.ul's count of Jewish plots in St. Luke's narra- time it was situa.ted on the eouth-wost coast tive of St. Paul's sojourn at Ephesus. But of the Latmie.n gulf, just opposite the mouth from eh. xix. 9, 13, 11,ncl probably 33, w0 of the Meander on the east. But since his may gather how hostile the unbelieving time tho whole gulf of Le.tmos he.s been Jews were to him. filled up with soil brought down by the river, Ver. 20.-How that I shrank not from d,- so that Miletus is no longer on the sea.coast, claring unto you anything for and hou, I hept and the new mouth of the Meander is to the baek nothing, A.V.; profitable for profitaUe west instend of to the east ofMiletus, which unto you, A. V ; and tea.eking for but have lies about eight miles inland (Lewin, vol. ii. shoioed you and have taught, A.V. I ahra:i.k p. 90: Smith's 'Diet. of Geog.'). Miletns no~from declaring, etc. The R.V. seems to was the sent of a bishopric in after times. oonatrne the phrase ll.B if it were '"' As regards this visit to Miletus, some Vtretr-ret.>..&.µ:rw -roii µ¾, llvanei'.\cz, {,µiv otJi5E;; identify it with that mentioned,in 2 Tim. iv. ,,.;;,v tTUµ,PepJvn,,v, which is 11, very l~bourerl 20. And it is certainly remarkable that so constrnction, of which the only advantage many of the so.me persona in connection with is that it gives ezactly the ao.ma sense to the same places a.re mentioned in both po.s- lnr,n.,>..d.µ11v as it has in ver. 27. But it i3 ee.gee and in the pastoral Epistles generally. much simpler to take ovliev here as governed The identical persona are Paul, Timothy, by lnr•<TT•u..d.µ1111, and to take the verb in its Luke, Trophimus, Tychicus, e.nd Apollos very common aeilBe of "keeping back," or (eh. xx. 4, 5, compared with 2 Tim. iv. 11, "dissembling " ( see the very similar pas- 12, 20): and the identical places are Corinth, sages quoted by Kuinoel from Demosthenes, 'fheaao.lonicn, Troaa, Ephesus, Miletus, and Plato, Socrates, etc., Ovliev wotTT•iJ\a.µevos, Crete. But tho other circumstances do not µ110<11 wo1TT•l1'.11µeµos, K,,,..>..,), and to take agree well with the events of this journey, the Toii µ't, a.v..,.,,,.X,., {,µ,.11 1<1U li,li~cu a~ but seem to belong to a le.tor period of St. expressing what would have been the effect Paul's life (see bolow, ver. 25, note). of such " keeping back," or " dissembling," Ver. 16.-Past for by, A. V.: that he might the µ't, extending to both infinitives (Meyer), not have to for because he would not, A.V.; " so as not to declare and teaoh," eto. In ti'ITl,(J for the time, A. V. : was hastening for ver. 27 the verb fnretTTeiJ\rfµ11v must be taken hasted, A.V. To spend time; xpovoTp<flfi<T<><, in the equally common sense of "holding found only here in the New Testament, but back,'' or " shrinking," under the influence UBed by Aristotle and others. It has rather of fear, or indolence, or what not. The the sense of wasting time, spending it need- difference of rendering is required by the lessly. The day of Penteoost. The time of fa.et that here you have ovliev lnr•1TT•11'.&i,11v, year is thus very distinctly marked. Pnul whereas in ver. 27 you h11ove ov1< fnr•<Tn,- w11s at Philippi at the time of the Pass- 1'.&µ11v, In several of the classical pnssages over, and hoped to ree.oh Jerusalem by quoted above, and others in Schleusner, Pentecost. lnrotTTb,>,.•tT6o., is opposed to 71'a.pfn1r;ia.(•r;6a,, Ver. 17.-0alled to him for called, A.V. or, µeTil. 11'<>pp111Tla.s li111Aex6riv11, (comp. there- The R. V. gives the foroe of the middle voice fore for the sentiment, eh. ii. 29: iv. 13, 29, µ•TE1<a>..l<T11To. The elders of the Churoh ; SI ; ix. 27: xiii. 46: xiv. S; :uviii 31, viz. of Ephesus. These a.re manifestly the eto.: Eph. vi. 19, 20). l!J\me as are oalled bri<TK071'ous in ver. 28, Ver. 21.-To Jewa and to Greeks for both " overseers," or bishops. The distinotive lo the Jews, and also to the Greek.•, A.V. (see n11mes and functions of Church officers were eh. xi:s:. 10, 17). Repentance, etc. The two n?t yet fixed: and the apostles themselves. cardinal points of gospel teaching, as they a1~od by degrees by suoh as Timothy and are the two necessary qualities for every Tit.~, were whnt we now oall bishops, ex- Christian man. "Repentance whereby we ero1smg oversight over the elders themselves forsake sin, and faith whereby we steadfastly ~-~ well as over the whole flock (see 1 Tim. believe the promises of God." There is no 111. 1). The diooe1nn episcopate oame in ground for the remarks of Kuinoel e.n,l i;rndnnlly us tho e.postlell died off, and the others, that repentance is to be reierml I\CT~-11,  TliE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. [on. xx. 1-38.