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They also honored us with many honors, and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed.
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Honors Meant Practical Gifts
Commentators clarify that the "many honors" were not worship but tangible gifts and provisions. Scholars note the Greek word for "honor" could also mean a physician's fee, a detail fitting for Luke the physician to include. The islanders expressed gratitude for the healings by supplying the travelers with necessities for their voyage.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Who also honoured us. As men who were favoured by heaven, and who had been the means of conferring important benefits on them in healing t…
19th Century
Anglican
Who also honoured us with many honours.—It lies in the nature of the case that the honours took the form of gifts. The ve…
Baptist
In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteou…
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As a result of Paul’s ministry during his months on Malta, the islanders honored him and his party in many ways. Paul was no god, as they had soon …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Who also honoured us with many honours Not with divine honours, with religious adorations, as if they had been so ma…
God can make strangers into friends—friends in distress.
Those who are despised for simple manners are often more friendly than the more pol…
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