8-10. next day we that were of Paul's company departed--(The words
"the were of Paul's company" are omitted in the best manuscripts. They
were probably added as the connecting words at the head of some church
lessons).
and came to Cæsarea--a run along the coast, southward, of some thirty
miles.
Philip the evangelist--a term answering apparently very much to our
missionary
[HOWSON],
by whose ministry such joy had been diffused over Samaria and the
Ethiopian eunuch had been baptized
(Ac 8:4-40).
one of the seven--deacons, who had "purchased to himself a good
degree"
(1Ti 3:13).
He and Paul now meet for the first time, some twenty-five years after
that time.
JFB.
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