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Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 16] brethren" here, not merely Luke and Timothy, but other brethren now converted besides those in the house of the jailor. The four missionaries were guests of Lydia (verse 15) and probably the church now met in her home. {They departed} (\ex•lthan\). Paul and Silas, but not Luke and Timothy. Note "they" here, not "we." Note also the \-an\ ending instead of \-on\ as above. The movements of Timothy are not perfectly clear till he reappears at Beroea (17:15). It seems unlikely that he came to Thessalonica with Paul and Silas since only Paul and Silas obtained security there (17:9) and were sent on to Beroea (17:10). Probably Timothy was sent to Thessalonica from Philippi with gifts of which Paul spoke later (Php 4:15f.). Then he followed Paul and Silas to Beroea. [Table of Contents] [Previous] [Next] http://www.ccel.org/r/robertson_at/wordpictures/htm/AC16.RWP.html (19 of 19) [28/08/2004 09:07:01 a.m.] Word Pictures in the New Testament (Acts: Chapter 16)

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 17] [Table of Contents] [Previous] [Next] 17:1 {When they had passed through} (\diodeusantes\). First aorist active participle of \diodeu•\, common verb in the _Koin•_ (Polybius, Plutarch, LXX, etc.), but in the N.T. only here and Lu 8:1. It means literally to make one's way (\hodos\) through (\dia\). They took the Egnatian Way, one of the great Roman roads from Byzantium to Dyrrachium (over 500 miles long) on the Adriatic Sea, opposite Brundisium and so an extension of the Appian Way. {Amphipolis} (\t•n Amphipolin\). So called because the Strymon flowed almost around (\amphi\) it, the metropolis of Macedonia Prima, a free city, about 32 miles from Philippi, about three miles from the sea. Paul and Silas may have spent only a night here or longer. {Apollonia} (\t•n Apoll•nian\). Not the famous Apollonia in Illyria, but 32 miles from Amphipolis on the Egnatian Way. So here again a night was spent if no more. Why Paul hurried through these two large cities, if he did, we do not know. There are many gaps in Luke's narrative that we have no way of filling up. There may have been no synagogues for one thing. {To Thessalonica} (\eis Thessalonik•n\). There was a synagogue here in this great commercial city, still an important city called Saloniki, of 70,000 population. It was originally called Therma, at the head of the Thermaic Gulf. Cassander renamed it Thessalonica after his wife, the sister of Alexander the Great. It was the capital of the second of the four divisions of Macedonia and finally the capital of the whole province. It shared with Corinth and Ephesus the commerce of the Aegean. One synagogue shows that even in this commercial city the Jews were not very numerous. As a political centre it ranked with Antioch in Syria and Caesarea in Palestine. It was a strategic centre for the spread of the gospel as Paul later said for it sounded (echoed) forth from Thessalonica throughout Macedonia and Achaia (1Th 1:8). 17:2 {As his custom was} (\kata to ei•thos t•i Paul•i\). The same construction in Lu 4:16 about Jesus in Nazareth (\kata to ei•thos aut•i\) with the second perfect active participle neuter singular from \eth•\. Paul's habit was to go to the Jewish synagogue to use the Jews and the God-fearers as a springboard for his work among the Gentiles. {For three Sabbaths} (\epi http://www.ccel.org/r/robertson_at/wordpictures/htm/AC17.RWP.html (1 of 23) [28/08/2004 09:07:06 a.m.] Word Pictures in the New Testament (Acts: Chapter 17)

<strong>Word</strong> <strong>Pictures</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> NT [Acts: Chapter 16]<br />

brethren" here, not merely Luke and Timothy, but o<strong>the</strong>r brethren<br />

now converted besides those <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> house of <strong>the</strong> jailor. The four<br />

missionaries were guests of Lydia (verse 15) and probably <strong>the</strong><br />

church now met <strong>in</strong> her home. {They departed} (\ex•lthan\). Paul<br />

and Silas, but not Luke and Timothy. Note "<strong>the</strong>y" here, not "we."<br />

Note also <strong>the</strong> \-an\ end<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>stead of \-on\ as above. The<br />

movements of Timothy are not perfectly clear till he reappears at<br />

Beroea (17:15). It seems unlikely that he came to Thessalonica<br />

with Paul and Silas s<strong>in</strong>ce only Paul and Silas obta<strong>in</strong>ed security<br />

<strong>the</strong>re (17:9) and were sent on to Beroea (17:10). Probably<br />

Timothy was sent to Thessalonica from Philippi with gifts of<br />

which Paul spoke later (Php 4:15f.). Then he followed Paul and<br />

Silas to Beroea.<br />

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<strong>Word</strong> <strong>Pictures</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>Testament</strong><br />

(Acts: Chapter 16)

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