2. a ship of--belonging to.
Adramyttium--a port on the northeast coast of the Ægean
Sea. Doubtless the centurion expected to find another ship, bound for
Italy, at some of the ports of Asia Minor, without having to go with
this ship all the way to Adramyttium; and in this he was not
disappointed. See on
Ac 27:6.
meaning to sail by the coasts--"places."
of Asia--a coasting vessel, which was to touch at the ports of
proconsular Asia.
one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with
us--rather, "Aristarchus the Macedonian," &c. The word "one" should
not have been introduced here by our translators, as if this name had
not occurred before; for we find him seized by the Ephesian mob as a
"man of Macedonia and Paul's companion in travel"
(Ac 19:29)
and as a "Thessalonian" accompanying the apostle from Ephesus on
his voyage back to Palestine
(Ac 20:4).
Here both these places are mentioned in connection with his name. After
this we find him at Rome with the apostle
(Col 4:10;
Phm 24).
JFB.
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