Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 21]
Ptolemies, Syrians, Romans. {Saluted} (\aspasamenoi\). Here
greeting as in 21:19 rather than farewell as in 20:1. The
stay was short, one day (\h•meran mian\, accusative), but "the
brethren" Paul and his party found easily. Possibly the scattered
brethren (Ac 11:19) founded the church here or Philip may have
done it.
21:8 {On the morrow} (\t•i epaurion\). Another and the more
common way of expressing this idea of "next day" besides the
three in 20:15 and the one in 21:1. {Unto Caesarea} (\eis
Kaisarian\). Apparently by land as the voyage (\ploun\) ended at
Ptolemais (verse 7). Caesarea is the political capital of Judea
under the Romans where the procurators lived and a city of
importance, built by Herod the Great and named in honour of
Augustus. It had a magnificent harbour built Most of the
inhabitants were Greeks. This is the third time that we have seen
Paul in Caesarea, on his journey from Jerusalem to Tarsus (Ac
9:30), on his return from Antioch at the close of the second
mission tour (18:22) and now. The best MSS. omit \hoi peri
Paulou\ (we that were of Paul's company) a phrase like that in
13:13. {Into the house of Philip the evangelist} (\eis ton
oikon Philippou tou euaggelistou\). Second in the list of the
seven (6:5) after Stephen and that fact mentioned here. By this
title he is distinguished from "Philip the apostle," one of the
twelve. His evangelistic work followed the death of Stephen (Ac
8) in Samaria, Philistia, with his home in Caesarea. The word
"evangelizing" (\eu•ggelizeto\) was used of him in 8:40. The
earliest of the three N.T. examples of the word "evangelist" (Ac
21:8; Eph 4:11; 2Ti 4:5). Apparently a word used to describe one
who told the gospel story as Philip did and may have been used of
him first of all as John was termed "the baptizer" (\ho
baptiz•n\, Mr 1:4), then "the Baptist" (\ho baptist•s\, Mt
3:1). It is found on an inscription in one of the Greek islands
of uncertain date and was used in ecclesiastical writers of later
times on the Four Gospels as we do. As used here the meaning is a
travelling missionary who "gospelized" communities. This is
probably Paul's idea in 2Ti 4:5. In Eph 4:11 the word seems
to describe a special class of ministers just as we have them
today. Men have different gifts and Philip had this of
evangelizing as Paul was doing who is the chief evangelist. The
ideal minister today combines the gifts of evangelist, herald,
teacher, shepherd. "{We abode with him}" (\emeinamen par'
aut•i\). Constative aorist active indicative. \Par aut•i\ (by his
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