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Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;
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A Divinely Favored Journey
Commentators highlight the phrase 'made a straight course' as a nautical term for sailing with a favorable wind. This allowed Paul's team to reach Macedonia in a swift two days, a journey that could take five days in adverse conditions (Acts 20:6). This detail, recorded by the eyewitness Luke, shows God's providence in quickly moving the gospel into Europe after the Macedonian call.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Loosing from Troas. Setting sail from this place.
To Samothracia. This was an island in the Aegean Sea, not far from Thrace…
Setting sail (αναχθεντες). Same word in 13:13 which see.
We made a straight course (ευθυδρομησαμεν). First…
19th Century
Anglican
We came with a straight course to Samothracia.—Their course lay to the north-west, and, probably, following the navigatio…
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Baptist
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
