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Spain, and Crete.
Paul's fourth Apoftolic journey, to convert at Rome, Italy.

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xxvii When they came to My-Acts xxvii. Acts ra, the centurion finding a5.

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xxvii hip bound for Italy, puts

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them on board.

When they came to Fair Actsxxvii.

xxvii Havens, Paul advised that 8-14.
they should winter there,
foretelling the damage of the
ship, and the danger of their
lives, if they proceeded on

Ithe voyage (it being a stormyl

month, Puteoli.

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went.

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On the voyage.

Melita.

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Proofs of the

Their most remarkable Transactions Transactions.

month, Acts xxvii. 9.); but
the centurion trusting rather Actsxxvii.
to the judgment of the master 11, 12.

Acts of the ship than to Paul, and
xxvii being unwilling to winter
13. in so inconvenient a port,

fet fail for Crete: where Acts
they foon met with a very xxvii. 14
great ftorm, that lafted many-zo.
days. And when they gave
themselves over, Paul fore-Acts
tels, that none of them xxvii.
should be loft, from an an-20-27.
gel, who revealed it to him,
the night before.

Acts At laft they are caft on
xxviii. Melita, where a viper fasten-Acts

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led on Paul's hand. But he xxviii. shook it off, and felt no harm; 3-6. according to our Saviour's promise, Mark xvi. 18.

Publius, the chief man of Acts

the island, lodged them three xxviii. days courteously. 7,8.

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Paul praying, and " lay

ing his hanus" on his father, heals him of a fever,

and a bloody flux; and others

Acts of other diseases.

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Syracufe.

Rhegium.

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Ver.

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Paul lands at Syracufe; stays there three days; comes

Ibid. to Rhegium; thence to Pu

and teoli, where they found Bre

Ver. thren, and, according to

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their defire, tarried with them

Acts seven days.

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on the road thither with his companions, they meet him at Appii Forum. His companions were (1.) Timothy, who came with him from Macedonia, Acts xx. 4. and who writes, jointly with Paul, from Rome to the Philippians, Coloffians, and Philemon, Philip. i. 1. Coloff. i. 1. Philem. v. I. (2). Luke, who feems to have been a proselyte of the gate, that Paul met first at Antioch in Syria, Acts xi. 28, The Alexandrian MS. reading Συνεσραμμένων δὲ ἡμῶν. He became his companion at Frças, Acts xvi. 11. and went thence with Paul to Philippi, ver. 12. where Paul meets him again, Acts xx. 5, 6. and was particularly one that was chosen of the churches to carry the contributions to Jerufalem, 2 Cor. vii. 18, 19. when Paul was fent from Jerufalem as a prifoner hither. Paul likewife fends falutations from Luke, in two of his Epistles, written from hence, Coloff. iv. 14. Philem. v. 24. (.) Aristarchus, one of his fellow-travellers from Macedonia, Acts xx. 4. and xxvii. 2. and his fellow-prifoner There, Coloff. iv. 10. (4.) Tychicus, another of his fellow-travellers, Acts xx. 4.1

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time and place, Proofs of the

Acts

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And whom he sent from
hence to the Coloffians, Co-
loff. iv. 7. (5.) Mark, the
nephew of Barnabas, Coloff.
iv. 10.

Paul writes the epistle from
hence that is generally call-
ed the Epiftle to the Ephe-
fians, at the fame time that
The writes that to the Co-
lossians, and sent it by the
fame messenger, Tychicus,
Eph. vi. 21. Col. iv. 8.
This epistle could not be
written to the Ephesians,
Eph. 1. 15. iii. 2-5. vi. 23.
It was, probably, written to
the Laodiceans; mentioned
in the Epiftle to the Colof-
sians, iv. 16. The texts
which I have quoted from
the Epistle to the Ephefians
will agree with the state of
things at Laodicea, where
Paul had not been; but not
with that at Ephefus, where
he had lived so long, and
where there were bishops,
Acts xx. 28.

During the time of his imxxviii. prifonment, he converts, a mong others, some of far's houshold, Philip. iv. 22. several of the Prætorian foldiers, as well as the fervants. For he says, "his Phil. i. " bonds were manifest," 12, 13. ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ πραιπωρίῳ. Onefimus, the servant of PhileImon, a confiderable man at

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Coloffe, Philem.ver. 10. And
probably great numbers of
others, fiuce the Roman hi-
ftorians afterwards call them

a vast multitude," Tacit.
An. xv. 44. Suet. in Ner.
сар. х.

Paul is fuffered to dweil in his own hired house, while the reft of the prisoners are delivered to the captain of the guard. The mild treatment he met with must have proceeded from that favourable representation which Festus made of his cafe, and the report that Julius, the centurion, might make of what had passed on the voyage, and of Paul's behaviour whilst he had been under his care. This mild treatment of him, and his constancy, proved a furtherance to the gospel of Chrift: other bre: thren taking encouragement from thence to preach with greater boldness, Philip. i.

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Three days after his ar-Ats rival, he called the chief of xxviii. the Jews together; shewing 17-21. them how he came a prifoner to Rome; but that he had " committed nothing against the people, or cuttoms of their fathers." They tell him, that they had heard nothing against him; but should be glad to hear of

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