Setting sail (αναχθεντες). Same word in 13:13 which see.

We made a straight course (ευθυδρομησαμεν). First…

Loosing from Troas. Setting sail from this place.

To Samothracia. This was an island in the Aegean Sea, not far from Thrace…

We came with a straight course to Samothracia.—Their course lay to the north-west, and, probably, following the navigatio…

Waiting to know what they were to do. In God's work, we are not to go on in blundering haste. Sometimes, a little waiting may be good for us; and b…

Samothrace is an island in the northeastern part of the Aegean Sea, lying between Troas and Philippi. It is the most conspicuous landmark in the No…

This history shows, as it were, in a mirror, how sharply the Lord tested the faith and patience of His people by bringing them into great difficult…

Therefore loosing from Troas
Or setting sail from there, which, as before observed, was the Hellespont; which was a narrow sea…

The removals of ministers, and the dispensing the means of grace by them, are in particular under Divine conduct and direction. We must follow Prov…