Malta
mel'-i-ta (Melite, Acts 28:1): Is now generally identified
with Malta. The former error in attributing the reference to
the island of Meleda on the East coast of the Adriatic Sea
was due to the ancient practice of employing the term Adria
to include the Ionian and Sicilian seas.
Malta is the largest of a group of islands including Gozo
and the...
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(An important island in the Mediterranean Sea)
-Paul shipwrecked on the coast of
Ac 28:1-10...
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(honey), the modern Malta. This island lies in the
Mediterranean 60 miles south of Cape Passaro in Sicily, 900
miles from Gibraltar and about 1200 from Jerusalem. It is 17
miles long. by 13 or 10 broad. It is naturally a barren
rock, with no high mountains, but has been rendered fertile
by industry and toil. It is famous for its honey and frui...
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(Acts 27:28), an island in the Mediterranean, the modern
Malta.
Here the ship in which Paul was being conveyed a
prisoner to
Rome was wrecked. The bay in which it was wrecked
now bears the
name of "St. Paul's Bay", "a certain creek with a
shore." It is
about 2 miles deep and 1 broad, and the whole
physical condition
of the scene answers t...
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The scene of Paul's shipwreck (Acts 27-28). Not the Melita
now Meleda in the gulf of Venice near Dalmatia; but the
Melita between Sicily and Africa, Malta, where tradition
names the place of the wreck "Paul's bay" (Mr. Smith, of
Jordan Hill, Shipwreck of Paul). After leaving Fair Havens
in Crete, and while sailing along its S. coast, the wind ...
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And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was
called Melita....
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"..Malta has a long Christian legacy and is an Apostolic See. According to the Acts of the Apostles,[10] St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island and ministered there.[11] Catholicism continues to be the official and dominant religion in Malta..."...
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