The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2 — Section 164

CHAPTER XXI. of coming down to land from the sea (see ver.3 in theT.R., and ch.xxvii. 3; xxviii.12). Ver. 1.-When it came to pasa that toe The snme conception of patting ont to sea were parted from them, and had set sail for it being e. going up, led to the phrase .,..,.,.,pos came to pass, that after toe were gotten from (high up) being e.pplied to ships out at them, and had launched, A.V.; Coa for Coos, sea. From µedo,pos comes, of courae, our A.V. and T.R.; nezt day for day following, word "meteor." Cos, or Cooa, for it is A.V. Parted from them (a.,roa"1racr6ev-ras). written both ways, now called by the Turks "Non sine desiderio mngno" (Bengel). Stanko (ls -r,b Kw), e. beautiful island, neo.rly " He shows the violence of the parting by opposite the Gulf of Ha.licarna.ssus, o.nd saying, 'Having tom ourselves awny'" separated from Cnidns by a. narrow strait, (Ohrysostom). Tho word is properly npplied about six hours• so.il from Miletus. There is to those who ho.ve been unwilliugly torn a city of the same name on its eo.stem coast. nway from their friends (Schleusner and It was one of the six Dorian colonies which Kuinoel); "denotes the painful sepnrntion formed the confederation called the Dorian wrung from them by necessity" (Meyer). Hexnpolis. It wo.s famous for its wine and In eh. xx. 30 it was used in the active voice its textile fabrics (Howson, o.nd Lewiu, aud of fnlso teachers "dro.wing away" the 'Diet. of Geog.'). Bhodes ('PoSos); perhaps disciples, i.e. Christians, after them. In the " Isle of Roses;" the well-known moun- 2 Maco. xii 10 it meo.ns simply" withdrawn," tainous island in the lEgean Sea, which and so perho.ps also in Luke xxii. 41, lies nine or ten miles from the coast of Carla. though Meyer thinks tho.t St. Lnko chose Its inho.bitants were Doria.us, and it was one the u11W1nal word to denote the urgent of the places which claimed the honour of emotion by which. our Lord was as it being the birthplace of Homer. The tcwns were compelled to leo.ve the companionship o.re all situated on the seacoast. "Rhode11 of the apostles, and be o.lone, ~,..;;,, (whence was the lo.st Christio.n city to make a stand spasm) e.nd its derivo.tives, of which Luke agiiinst the Saracens" (Howson). Pata.re. uses four-two of which o.ro peonlie.r to him ([.,a] nd-rapa). A flourishing commercial city -nre much employed by medical writers, u on the south-west coast of Lycio., with 11 Hippocro.tes, Go.Ion, Antems, eto. (Bobo.rt, good harbour, It was the port of Xanthus, on Luke xxii.). Had set sail (dvaxB;jva, the co.pita! of Lycia. The name Patera is 11µas). The word means" to go up to the still attRohed to some extensive ruins on see. from the lo.nd " as Luke viii. 22 ; oh. the seashore not far from the river Xo.nthus. :1iil. 18; xvi. 11 ; ~vii. 12; just 118, on the contrary, 1t1ml.-yE1v and 1t1<'1'4j'f0'8a1 are used I Ver. 2.-Hat'i11g found a ship crossing for ftnding a ship ,ailing, A.V.; Plwmicia for liO THE ACTS OF 'rHE APOSTLES. [en. xu.1-40.