Ac 18:23-21:16. PAUL'S THIRD AND LAST MISSIONARY JOURNEY--HE VISITS THE CHURCHES OF GALATIA AND PHRYGIA.
23. And after he had spent some time there--but probably not long.
he departed--little thinking, probably, he was never more to return to
Antioch.
went over all . . . Galatia and Phrygia in
order--visiting the several churches in succession. See on
Ac 16:6.
Galatia is mentioned first here, as he would come to it first from
Antioch. It was on this visitation that he ordained the weekly
collection
(1Co 16:1, 2),
which has been since adopted generally, and converted into a public
usage throughout Christendom. Timotheus and Erastus, Gaius and
Aristarchus, appear to have accompanied him on this journey
(Ac 19:22, 29;
2Co 1:1),
and from Second Corinthians we may presume, Titus also. The details of
this visit, as of the former
(Ac 16:6),
are not given.
JFB.
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